Most people picture earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes regularly, the news covers it, and residents there ...

Boulder, Colo., USA: In the Pacific Northwest, big faults like the Cascadian subduction zone located offshore, get a lot of attention. But big faults aren’t the only ones that pose significant hazards ...

New maps of more than 1,000 deep-seated landslides in the Puget Lowlands of Washington State provide evidence of the last major earthquake along the Seattle Fault about 1,100 years ago -- and may also ...

The Seattle fault zone is a network of shallow faults slicing through the lowlands of Puget Sound, threatening to create damaging earthquakes for the more than four million people who live there. A ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Skyline of Seattle at sunset. A hazardous fault line that runs south of downtown Seattle may have formed when the edge of the ...

With the Cascadia Subduction Zone parked off the coast and shallow faults lurking under most major cities, the Puget Sound area already faces a daunting array of seismic scenarios. A new study adds ...

The Pacific Northwest is crawling with quake detectives these days, searching for evidence disguised by the region's dense costume of foliage and glacial remains. Seattle is at the hub of this frenzy ...

This press release is available online at: https://news.agu.org/press-release/seattle-fault-may-have-origins-in-an-ancient-tear-in-the-continent The Seattle fault is ...