BEND, Ore. (KTVZ)-- The recent 7.0 earthquake that struck off the Northern California coast is reminding many residents along the West Coast of the impending 'Big One' expected to hit within the ...

The Cape Mendocino earthquake was not on the Cascadia subduction ... zone earthquake. The Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries has spent years creating maps of what inundation ...

SAN FRANCISCO ‒ A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near the town of Petrolia in California Thursday at 10:44 a.m., generating a tsunami warning stretching from southern Oregon to San Francisco.

Each of these local faults have the potential to produce a 7 magnitude earthquake or greater. Yet, the biggest or mega earthquake threat is from the Cascadia ... near Oregon border The steps ...

Within seconds, cellphones buzzed with alerts about the earthquake throughout California cities and towns and up into Oregon ... to the Pacific Northwest, a Cascadia subduction zone earthquake ...

Oregon and Washington, we now understand that the Cascadia Subduction Zone has experienced great (magnitude 8-9) earthquakes and tsunamis every several hundred years. Fifty-nine years ago ...

Yet, the biggest or mega earthquake threat is from the Cascadia Subduction Zone about 100 miles off the coast. This subduction zone is quite similar to the Sumatra earthquake region. The last ...

An earthquake map from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) shows that minor earthquakes hit nine states on Friday morning. California is perhaps the state most known for earthquakes, as the Golden ...

In truth, the West Coast has no control over or idea of when the true “Big One” may open up. Studies from the state of Oregon show that there is a roughly 37 percent chance of a Cascadia megathrust ...

While the wave generated by this earthquake did ... Patton and Bohon said. Cascadia tsunami simulation reveals west coast disaster risks In neighboring Oregon, the map colors are different ...