The most destructive Cascadian earthquakes are likely to slam offshore of Washington state and Vancouver Island, new data reveal. The Cascadia megathrust is a massive fault thought capable of ...

The study, published in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, dated the disturbances in sedimentary layers off the B.C. southern coast over the last 11,000 years, identifying 22 earthquake ...

The colossal quake was what is known as a megathrust earthquake. These giant quakes, the most powerful quakes the planet is capable of unleashing, occur along subduction zones, where one tectonic ...

Once every several hundred years or so, they generate a major megathrust earthquake and large tsunami. According to Suzanne Carbotte, the study's lead author and Columbia University marine ...

A leading earthquake geologist says a devastating ‘megathrust’ earthquake linked to the Kaikoura quake is still a possibility. It's a case of when, not if, New Zealand's largest fault ruptures ...

Known as a “megathrust earthquake,” the plates shifted by more than 20 meters, releasing enormous energy and causing tsunami waves up to 35 meters high – the height of a 10-story building.

Metro Vancouver has been steadily upgrading its reservoirs since the '90s to ensure it can provide water to the region following the "Big One" — a megathrust earthquake expected to hit the B.C ...