Down in California, the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary where the North American and Pacific plates are sliding past ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

Geologic clues reveal a hidden link between two major faults. A Cascadia quake might set the San Andreas in motion soon after ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that megaquakes in the Pacific Northwest might trigger California’s San Andreas Fault. A research ship’s navigational error revealed paired sediment layers showing ...

A future mega-earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could lead to the “Big One” along the San Andreas fault in California—or ...

A Cascadia subduction zone earthquake is coming for the Pacific Northwest, and when it hits, scientists now believe, it could ...

A massive Pacific Northwest earthquake could trigger a devastating second quake on California's San Andreas Fault, a new ...

Increased warming in high-latitude wetlands seems poised to increase the activity of methanogens, or methane-producing ...

The illegal logging in Mentawai was carried out by PT BRN, and the harvested wood was sold to PT Hutan Lestari Mukti Perkasa ...

A team from The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Chile servicing a UTIG seismometer near Calama, Northern Chile, in 2024. UT graduate student Sabrina Reichert is in the background.

Residents of the US’s West Coast have long feared “The Big One” – the apparently inevitable massive earthquake that will one day hit where the Pacific tectonic plate meets its North American neighbor.