Mount Rainier’s quiet, snowcapped profile hides a restless interior that has just rattled itself with more than a thousand ...

On December 4, 2025, millions of cell phones in California and Nevada buzzed with ShakeAlert warnings of a magnitude 5.9 ...

“The best science says, not only are earthquakes unpredictable, they will never be predictable because they’re very dynamically unstable,” says Tim Melbourne, professor of seismology and tectonics, ...

The fervor over an impending earthquake in Seattle and the greater Pacific Northwest is far from cooled off, after a report from The New Yorker. Cities and agencies on the West Coast and around the ...

Up and down the West Coast, cities face high risk of earthquakes. In Seattle, there is an 85% chance of a major quake in the next 50 years. Historic brick buildings are most at risk. There is even a ...

An earthquake struck the northwest part of Washington state near the U.S.-Canada border early Monday morning, officials said. A tsunami wasn't expected following the earthquake. The preliminary ...

At 10:54 am on February 28, 2001, Seattle and the surrounding area shook in the Nisqually earthquake. Centered about 60 kilometers southwest of the city at a depth of 52 kilometers, the tremor clocked ...