A city department is developing new requirements for earthquake retrofits in Seattle's most vulnerable buildings, and they could come before the City Council by the end of this year. Why it ...

SEATTLE - The Puget Sound area saw multiple recent earthquakes, including a 4.5 magnitude ... He says we're lucky the viaduct didn't crumble two decades before, during the Nisqually quake.

The last major Cascadia quake struck in 1700, and with an average recurrence interval of 550 years, so that means, the next ...

SEATTLE — Technology that detects strong ... people will have the time to get to a safe place before a damaging earthquake. There are a couple different ways people can be alerted, depending ...

The earthquake struck about 70 miles northwest of Seattle, according to the warning center. Orcas Island is part of the archipelago known as the San Juan Islands, which comprises dozens of islands ...

An earthquake shook parts of western Washington ... Enumclaw, Kent, Marysville, Seattle, Renton, Tacoma, Graham, and Olympia. King County Emergency Management has asked people to report whether ...

The shallow earthquake started around 3:45 a.m. Parts of Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia felt the weak rumblings, PNSN data showed. Harold Tobin, director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network ...

The earthquake was recorded just southeast of Auburn along the Green River. KING 5 viewers reported feeling in Tacoma and Seattle and as far as Olympia and Camano Island. This is the second ...

BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — People in northwest Washington might have felt an earthquake Friday afternoon. According to the United State Geological Survey (USGS) the earthquake hit near Sechelt ...