Melissa Slager is a former Daily Herald reporter and Street Smarts columnist. “Contests of Strength” was released Tuesday. A ...

The project transformed two aging opening-air drinking water reservoirs into one seismically resilient underground site.

A study warns of a mega tsunami up to 1,000 feet high if a strong earthquake strikes the Cascadia fault, threatening US ...

According to the study, the quake could make parts of the coastline sink by up to 6.5 feet, which would make the tsunami more ...

We’re getting a first look at a brand new feature of Portland’s Washington Park that’s been under construction for nearly 10 years.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, which is a 600-mile-wide fault system extending from Northern California to Vancouver Island, ...

New research, led by the University of Washington, reveals new information about the Cascadia Subduction Zone will force a ...

Experts are sounding the alarm about a potential mega-earthquake that could rock the US Pacific Northwest — and it may be ...

New spending restrictions for some federal agencies are creating extra hoops for scientists to jump through to fix earthquake ...

A new study found that the geological conditions are in place for a massive tsunami to hit the United States and sink ...

Nearly a mile deep, the Pacific Ocean volcano known as Axial Seamount is drawing increasing scrutiny from scientists who only ...

A new study has identified three states in the US could be hit by an earthquake and mega-tsunami in a handful of years.