The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to California, the fault marks the convergence of the Juan de Fuca and North American ...

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.

Imagine: it’s a hot August morning in Vancouver. The province is in the grips of another summer heat wave and wildfires are raging in the north. Going about your morning, cell phones, including your ...

Tsukuba, Japan—In July 2025, a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8-8.9 struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Notably, this event ruptured nearly the same region as the M9.0-class ...