You may notice tsunami signs when visiting Oregon's coastal destinations. Here's what they mean and how to prepare yourself in case of a disaster.

A particularly chilling prospect for Northern California, as well as Oregon and Washington, would be a magnitude 9 earthquake along the Cascadia subduction zone off the coast. A major quake in this ...

But the earthquake wasn’t strong enough to damage infrastructure and was never thought likely to produce the level of inundation of a Cascadia tsunami. There were multiple reasons for the ...

This strip would lie in the line of fire of any tsunami triggered by an eruption along the Cascadia subduction zone, which runs for nearly 700 miles along the Pacific Northwest coast. Any tsunami ...

It’s much more difficult to prepare for a Cascadia earthquake and tsunami than for a repeat of what happened in 1964 or in 2011 when we had more than 9 hours before the Japan tsunami reached us.

Emma Pattee’s first novel, “Tilt,” tells the story of a pregnant Portland woman who is shopping for a crib at IKEA when the Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake hits. Portland author Emma ...

Image 1: Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake cycle recorded in salt marsh stratigraphy and computed tomography (CT) scan of a 80 cm sediment core collected from an Oregon salt marsh displaying a ...