earthquakes

Bill Steele is coordinator of the seismology lab at the University of Washington's Earth and Space Sciences department. He told KUOW's Katherine Banwell…

A catastrophe-focused crowd turned out last night for KUOW’s Disaster Night! — a quiz show about natural disasters (and disaster movies), at the Royal…

When the next major earthquake roils our region, University of Washington’s civil engineers and seismic experts will not be safe.That's because their…

A big earthquake could hit Seattle in the next 50 years. That got KUOW listener Derek Hanson wondering: What would happen to our most prominent…

There will be a time — it could be tomorrow, it could be 100 years from now —when the ground beneath us will start to shake.Buildings will crumble. Roads…

The Seattle region has been growing so fast, there are now 400,000 more people here than in 2009, when we agreed to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with a…