Smaller quakes from secondary faults—which are not included in national seismic hazard modeling—occur more frequently than ...

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

SEATTLE — University of Washington (UW) researchers published a study Tuesday that mapped and dated past landslides in the region to better understand historical earthquakes along the Seattle Fault.

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 western half of Washington state is considered earthquake country, with the potential for very large quakes. Scientists have their top three. First, there’s the Cascadia Subduction Zone running ...

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 ...