Kitsap County residents might have been awoken by the ground shaking on Thursday morning, as a 3.1 magnitude earthquake was ...

A second earthquake of at least 2.5 magnitude in 12 hours struck Thursday afternoon in western Washington. The 3.2 magnitude ...

Sometimes they pull apart at divergent boundaries, and sometimes they push together at convergent boundaries. When plates come together at convergent boundaries, they often slide under each other, ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

A University of Michigan study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

SEATTLE — A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck near Auburn Saturday morning with reports of it being felt in Tacoma and Seattle.

Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, two pieces of the Earth’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude ...

The Pacific Northwest is at risk for a mega-earthquake because of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The region is primed for powerful quakes, with a particularly strong one called the Big One ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Centuries later, the ancient quake has left clues for scientists to ...