Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

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

North Cove is in the northwest corner of Washington's Pacific County, where sea level projections show a 96% chance that at least one coastal flood reaching five feet above the high tide line will ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck about 143 miles southwest of Tofino, B.C., at around 5:53 a.m. A second 3.0 magnitude ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

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

Sources of rare earth elements are frequently associated with volcanoes, dormant or otherwise. Here on Earth, rare-earth ...

far from any known subduction zone. These anomalies could be remnants of ancient plates or accumulations of iron- or silica-rich rocks. These results, published in Scientific Reports, show that the ...

Iran’s ability to deter and wage war in recent decades was largely through gray zone methods. And the structures, resources, and allies that allowed it to do this are now in tatters. But the erosion ...

The Pacific is one large plate so it should not have any subduction material under it anyway ... Alternatively they could be zones where iron-rich rocks accumulate as a consequence of mantle movements ...

Astra Yao is the first limited support unit in Zenless Zone Zero, making her quite unique compared to previous characters, especially considering that the game has primarily focused on releasing ...

Very few Zenless Zone Zero Agents are as versatile as Astra Yao, the new playable S-Rank agent in version 1.5. She is a fierce support in combat, as her kit comprises healing and buffing abilities.