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Kitsap County residents might have been awoken by the ground shaking on Thursday morning, as a 3.1 magnitude earthquake was ...

A second earthquake of at least 2.5 magnitude in 12 hours struck Thursday afternoon in western Washington. The 3.2 magnitude ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

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Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, two pieces of the Earth’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

SQUAMISH, BC — A magnitude 4.8 earthquake shook near Squamish, British Columbia on Friday afternoon. The earthquake was reported at 1:26 p.m. at a depth of 10 kilometers, according to the U.S.