A recent report presented to city council painted a bleak picture of what a long-feared megathrust earthquake—commonly known as the Big One—could do to Vancouver.

The 'megathrust' could have 2000 times more energy ... The potential risk comes from the Hikurangi subduction zone, a massive fault line running from Marlborough and right past the East Coast ...

A massive quake might drop the Pacific Northwest coastline by 6 feet, redrawing flood maps and putting thousands of homes at risk.

Seismic symphonies of minor earthquakes may affect grand movements on major faults.

Geophysicists have obtained detailed three-dimensional images of a dangerous megathrust fault west of Costa Rica where two plates of the Earth’s crust collide. The images reveal features of the fault ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each other in a highly dangerous way. The plates can periodically lock up and build ...

(ANTARA/Muhammad Zulfikar/rst) Padang, West Sumatra (ANTARA) - The Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs and Investment has informed that OceanX researchers participating in Misi Indonesia 2024 ...

"It's giving us the first really detailed look at this huge megathrust fault that we've long known about but haven't had any details about," Edwin Nissen, a University of Victoria earth and ocean ...