The short historical record in the Pacific Northwest and an interval of 30 years or more between large crustal earthquakes means that there are no written records of earthquake activity for many ...

Confirming the megathrust fault line off Haida Gwaii offers a path to improve tsunami modelling in a zone that has produced ...

By contrast, an earthquake on the Puente Hills thrust fault system probably would max out at a magnitude 7.5 — still powerful, but less so than the southern San Andreas.

KATHMANDU: The massive earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25 ruptured the Main Himalayan Thrust fault, but not all the way to the surface, according to a recent paper published in Nature ...

The Puente Hills thrust fault is the same overall fault network that produced the Whittier Narrows – which measured a 5.9 magnitude, killed eight people and caused some $358 million in damage in ...

A rupture of a small portion of the Puente Hills thrust fault caused the magnitude 5.9 Whittier Narrows earthquake, which occurred on Oct. 1, 1987, with an epicenter in Rosemead.

Experts studying the second-biggest earthquake measured in Canadian history have zeroed in on the Pacific archipelago of Haida Gwaii as the likely source of a future large quake and tsunami.

By contrast, an earthquake on the Puente Hills thrust fault system probably would max out at a magnitude 7.5 — still powerful, but less so than the southern San Andreas.

By contrast, an earthquake on the Puente Hills thrust fault system probably would max out at a magnitude 7.5 — still powerful, but less so than the southern San Andreas.