A 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded at 4:38 p.m. near Highway 41 just west of Atascadero on Monday, according to the USGS ...

Coastal communities from northern California to British Columbia live atop the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans about ...

A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and ...

Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an earthquake erupts along the Cascadia subduction zone within the next 50 years.

A new study from Virginia Tech warns that large swaths of the Pacific Northwest, including Northern California, Oregon, and ...

California has dozens of earthquakes every day. Most are below 3.0 magnitude, so small that they aren’t felt.

Combined with rising seas caused by climate change, that could create long-term flooding problems for coastal areas in northern California ... floodplain if a magnitude 8 Cascadia earthquake were to ...

The earthquakes were felt around the North Coast. Find out about the larger earthquake's epicenter. A moderate earthquake, followed by three smaller quakes, shook California’s Northern Coast in ...

A light, 4.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Northern California on Wednesday ... U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. Aftershocks can occur days, weeks or even years after ...