Scientists agree that a powerful earthquake will eventually hit the Seattle region, and when it does, the city’s daily routines, infrastructure, and skyline will be tested in ways that are hard to ...

In the Pacific Northwest, big faults like the Cascadian subduction zone located offshore, get a lot of attention. But big ...

On Feb. 28, 2001, the ground beneath Seattle shook with such violence many buildings were red-tagged as unsafe to inhabit. In the 16 plus years since, engineers with the city’s Department of ...

A cluster of small earthquakes shook parts of the San Francisco Bay Area early Monday, hours after the Seattle Seahawks arrived in the region to begin Super Bowl week preparations.

Small earthquakes rattled the Bay Area as the NFL world descended ahead of the Super Bowl between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots.

The magnitude 4.1 earthquake that stuck after 3 a.m. in the center of Olympic National Park is one of the strongest tests yet of the new ShakeAlert system in Washington. While not considered a ...