Diego Melgar, director of the Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center at the University of Oregon, gives insight on how the ...

Science & Environment Cascadia earthquake tsunami threat may not be quite as bad as we thought (but it’s still bad) By Jes Burns (OPB) July 3, 2025 6 a.m.

Block diagram showing subduction of the Juan de Fuca Plate beneath the North American Plate along the Cascadia Trench, which is the western edge of the Cascadia subduction zone. USGS Alaska has ...

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There are places where splay faults are present along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, and for those spots, the tsunami risk may not have changed much. In southern Washington, near Grays Harbor ...

Two state representatives said Oregon needs to make long-term investments in preparedness training and disaster recovery.

Alerts for a potential tsunami were issued for coastlines in North America, Hawaii, Russia and Japan after a powerful ...

Scientists warn if a 1,000-ft ‘mega-tsunami’ spurs from an active fault line it could wipe part of America off the map - Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk ...

But that's a false impression, because the tsunami is coming," he said. The resulting waves would be on the order of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that killed nearly 230,000 people.

More than 115 square miles of Oregon coast could sink into the sea during a major event Scientists have been sounding the alarm about a major earthquake off the Oregon coast for years, but a new ...

Tsunami waves hit Japan, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast on Wednesday after an 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off Russia's ...