The study was focused on the Seattle Fault, located beneath the Puget Sound and the city ... impact of a ~7.5-magnitude earthquake on the Seattle Fault. Tsunami waves could be as high as 42 ...

SEATTLE — A study published by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources this week shows a tsunami triggered by a major earthquake beneath Puget Sound would arrive at Seattle shores ...

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources study found that tsunami waves would reach ... Seattle and the Puget Sound. The fault line has produced several earthquakes throughout the ...

The DNR said the study found waves may travel up to 3 miles ... But there’s a long history of earthquakes on faults in the Puget Sound,” said Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz.

Settling a half century of debate, researchers have discovered that tiny linear defects can propagate through a material faster than sound waves do ... ripped apart by an earthquake rupture ...

A pioneering new approach to wave ... they all study waves – including ocean waves, waves that make up mobile phone networks, waves used in X-ray machines and ultrasounds or the seismic waves ...

Seismologists study earthquakes by looking at the damage that was caused and by using seismometers. A seismometer is an instrument that records the shaking of the Earth's surface caused by seismic ...

Scientists may have figured out the cause of some bizarre seismic waves echoing around the ... We legitimately do not know what they are," study co-author Michael Thorne, a University of Utah ...

Thanks to a new study, scientists now have the clearest ... They are alarmingly smooth and capable of generating magnitude nine earthquakes and massive waves. Experts say the conditions observed ...