The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...
An analysis of the potential locations in Indonesia for the impending megathrust earthquakes and the urgency of disaster mitigation measures.
A 9.2 megathrust earthquake on the Cascadia Subduction Zone would not just rattle the Pacific Northwest, it would redraw the map of the region and test the limits of modern disaster planning.
A new study published in Science Advances has revealed the first detailed images of a newly developing subduction zone off the coast of British Columbia's Haida Gwaii archipelago. The international ...
Scientists are raising the alarm about a potential seismic catastrophe on the West Coast of North America. Recent studies suggest that a massive earthquake along the Cascadia megathrust fault, which ...
An 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific. The quake, the largest since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, occurred on a "megathrust ...