The advice given when there’s a long and strong earthquake is to “get gone” because of the potential tsunami risk, but would ...

Residents are urged to secure household items, maintain emergency kits, and participate in statewide drills such as the Great ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

A flurry of earthquakes in the Seattle area over the last couple of weeks has some residents asking if that means the "Big ...

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

This earthquake is larger than much of the recent seismic activity around western Washington, according to initial reports.

A 4.5 magnitude earthquake hit Orcas Island early on the morning of Monday, March 2. It was the biggest quake that Washington has seen since 2020, according to U.S. Geological Survey data. It's the ...

The effects of ocean chlorophyll on the mode water subduction rate in the subtropical mode water (STMW) and central mode water (CMW) in Pacific Ocean are investigated by performing two ocean-only ...

The worldwide network of telecommunications cables lying on the bottom of the world's oceans offers unique potential for ...

Western Washington tends to have a higher risk of earthquakes than the eastern part of the state, since the state’s Pacific coast is closer to the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The Cascadia fault ...

The SAFAtor project will transform telecommunications cables into sensors, enhancing ocean monitoring and understanding of ...