Is the U.S. Overdue for a Catastrophic Earthquake? These Cities Are Most at Risk

The likelihood that the U.S. will see a catastrophic earthquake within the next 30 years is very high — and it's not just the West Coast that's at risk, experts say.

Seismologists have long warned that the U.S. is "overdue" for an earthquake, because a catastrophic one has not occurred in the U.S. since about 1989, when the Loma Prieta earthquake killed at least 63 people in California, said Robert Yeats, a geology professor at Oregon State University. The most destructive earthquake the U.S.