Scientists investigate the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest, and the potential for a catastrophic tsunami.

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes known for explosive eruptions and intense earthquakes.

As the most seismically active regions in the world, oceanic subduction zones show contrasting seismicity in different regions. A review by a team from Nanjing University explored the ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...

Subduction zones around the world, areas where one tectonic plate shifts under another, create the largest earthquakes – those over magnitude 8.0 – triggering tsunamis and altering ecosystems ...

Mother Nature has a lot of potential catastrophes up her sleeve, including some you've never heard of. We have the details ...

The quake that struck Alaska’s southern coast on Wednesday, July 16 is part of a larger sequence that may continue to unfold ...

The activity of the Gibraltar subduction zone in the Mediterranean has been hotly debated. The Gibraltar arc formed in the Oligocene as a part of the Western Mediterranean subduction zones.

Trehu is a seismologist who has studied the Cascadia Subduction Zone for years. In 2021, a research vessel went from Vancouver Island to the Oregon-California border to gather data.

Megathrust earthquakes are the most powerful on Earth and they arise from subduction zones, where one of Earth’s plates is slipping over another.When rock on a convergent plate boundary gets ...

324th Cascadia quake anniversary: Advances in understanding subduction zones. by Allison Gutleber, KATU Staff. Mon, January 29th 2024 at 4:20 PM. Updated Mon, January 29th 2024 at 6:18 PM. 3.

Subduction zones around the world, areas where one tectonic plate shifts under another, create the largest earthquakes -- those over magnitude 8.0 -- triggering tsunamis and altering ecosystems in ...