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.

The loss of intertidal wetlands directly impacts ecosystem services such as water filtration, habitat for fisheries and ...

A new study from researchers at Virginia Tech says that there is an increased risk of flooding and tsunamis in the Pacific ...

Researchers found that a potential powerful earthquake combined with rising sea levels could lead to a mega tsunami.

A 3.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded in central Virginia on Tuesday afternoon, May 6, the United States Geological Survey said. The earthquake was reported about 5 miles south of Dillwyn ...

A small earthquake rattled parts of west-central Virginia Tuesday afternoon.According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.8-magntitude earthquake was recorded around Dillwyn and Farmville around 1: ...

It wasn’t just the Metallica concert at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg causing seismic waves this week, a 3.0 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Dillwyn on Tuesday. The earthquake’s center ...

A Virginia Tech geoscience professor has delivered a study that examines the risk of major coastal flooding in Washington, ...

A new study by geoscientists at Virginia Tech, published in ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’, estimates a 15 ...

"The National Seismic Hazard model shows that there is a 15% chance of a large (over magnitude 8) earthquake happening ...