The risk assessments were derived in part from a US Geological Survey study that created earthquake models to help inform municipalities and insurance companies about such hazards.

N early 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake in the next 100 ... to include all 50 states in a single USGS assessment, and it shows risk in some places that ...

Near-shore tsunamis, those triggered by earthquakes just off the coast, could pose a particularly dire risk for California’s ...

But a new study found a long-feared, deadly earthquake off Northern California could cause catastrophic flooding. The report says coastal areas could shrink by more than six feet in a matter of ...

SEATTLE — The threat of an earthquake at any given moment in Washington ... megathrust faults and often don’t produce a tsunami risk. The most common fault in the Northwest is the Crustal.

“This risk assessment provides us not just the high level findings ... There is a long history of frequent earthquakes in California, including one in 1994 that killed 57 people.

SEATTLE — The threat of an earthquake at any given moment in Washington ... megathrust faults and often don’t produce a tsunami risk. The most common fault in the Northwest is the Crustal.