I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault ... continental plate is composed of many different kinds of rocks, formed at different times over many tens of millions ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating powerful earthquakes. The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that the ...

In a nutshell Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme ...

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

The Pacific Northwest is at risk for a mega-earthquake because of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The region is primed for powerful quakes, with a particularly strong one called the Big One ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone gets less press but has the most powerful ... and southern Illinois. Little Rock, Nashville, Memphis, and St. Louis are the largest nearby cities that could experience ...