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

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 ...

New study reveals Earth’s crust collapse in action, offering rare insight into how tectonic plates fracture and reshape the planet.

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 ...

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

Down in California, the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary where the North American and Pacific plates are sliding past ...

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 ...

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 ...

YACHATS, Ore. — A 5.4 magnitude earthquake was among two that struck early Wednesday morning off Oregon's coast. According to ...

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 ...