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

They also found isotopic signatures corresponding to other subduction zone rocks such as abyssal serpentinite. "Our research indicates that these giant anorthosites likely originated from the ...

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

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

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

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...

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 ...