Scientists discovered a crack under the sea off Vancouver Island, NFZ in Cascadia region, that could alter Pacific subduction ...

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself ...

The federal government promised an Oregon hospital millions of dollars to help prepare for an earthquake. They're still ...

The discovery, made just off the coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean, shows that a section of the oceanic crust is ...

Flooding during a Cascadia region earthquake would alter the topography and ecosystems of the coastal region for years to ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

In this article, we will explore the recent earthquakes, the underlying geological mechanisms, and the implications for the Pacific Northwest. Early on Wednesday, two earthquakes were recorded by the ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

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 presents ...

Subduction zones produce the largest earthquakes. Over the past two decades, space geodesy has revolutionized our view of crustal deformation between consecutive earthquakes. The short time span of ...

Convergent plate margins are currently distinguished as ‘accretional’ or ‘erosional’, depending on the tendency to accumulate sediments, or not, at the trench. Accretion and erosion can coexist along ...