UW News
tsunami
August 17, 2015
UW researchers model tsunami hazards on the Northwest coast
![The Pacific Northwest from space.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2015/08/04165347/PacNW_TILE-150x150.jpg)
Recent press and social media coverage have reminded residents of the Pacific Northwest that they live in a seismically active region. Stretching offshore from northern California to British Columbia, the Cascadia subduction zone could slip at any time, causing a powerful earthquake and triggering a tsunami that would impact communities along the coast. Scientists from…
December 3, 2012
Russian Far East holds seismic hazards that could threaten Pacific Basin
![The 2009 eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Kuril Islands.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2012/12/04203255/Sarychev-ISS-lr-150x150.jpg)
The Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands, long shrouded in secrecy by the Soviet government, are a seismic and volcanic hotbed with a potential to trigger tsunamis that pose a risk to the rest of the Pacific Basin.