In “Murderland,” Caroline Fraser tries to understand why her hometown became a breeding ground for serial killers.

Teachers and staff in low-lying schools along the Pacific Northwest coast face an unusual extra responsibility alongside ...

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

The Pacific Northwest is being taken for a ride. At the Cascadia Subduction Zone—a 700-mile fault that runs all the way from California to British Columbia—two giant tectonic plates are locked ...

The resulting sea level rise will lead to significant flood risks for huge areas of land, making recovery even harder.

MORTON, Wash. - A magnitude 2.7 earthquake struck near Morton, Washington, early Thursday morning. According to the United ...

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

A single earthquake could cause the Pacific Northwest’s coastline to drop by as much as 6.5 feet in minutes permanently ...

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

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

A 2.9 magnitude earthquake shook Mount Vernon Tuesday morning, according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network.

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 ...