It’s a daunting challenge with the highest possible stakes should an offshore earthquake unleash a wall of incoming seawater.

The U.N. envoy to Myanmar is warning that the Southeast Asian country is on “a path to self-destruction” if the violence ...

A near-certain disaster looms for California, but there are real things people can do to prepare. Here's what to know about ...

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

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, dormant for over 300 years, poses a significant threat to the Pacific Northwest. A future ...

By luck of geology, the Pacific Northwest coast isn’t being hit nearly as hard as other areas of the world by climate ...

Researchers developed a fourth-generation buoy in Seattle that can detect an earthquake-triggered tsunami 10-15 minutes ...

A recent Virginia Tech study reveals that the Pacific Northwest faces a heightened risk of catastrophic flooding and mega-tsunamis, potentially reachi ...

Unlike gradual climate-driven events, this potential earthquake would “happen within minutes, leaving no time for adaptation or mitigation,” These are the words of Virginia Tech Department of ...

The tsunami wave from an anticipated earthquake off the West Coast could reach 100 feet and permanently flood parts of the ...

This would increase the amount of land at risk of flooding ... communities in the Pacific Northwest to prepare for these potential outcomes, especially because it has been estimated that there is a 15 ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake seismographs and deep ocean sensors that capture how fast tsunami ...