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

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

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 ...

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

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

Abstract: Thinking in and understanding of three-dimensional structures is omnipresent in many sciences from chemistry to geosciences. Current visualizations, however, are still using two-dimensional ...

Abstract: The Nankai Trough, extending from Suruga Bay to offshore Kyushu, marks the subduction boundary where the Philippine Sea Plate descends beneath the Eurasian Plate. This region is seismically ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a vast, horseshoe-shaped belt around the Pacific Ocean that is the world's most seismically and volcanically active zone. This region contains roughly 75% of the world’s ...

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

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

PORTLAND, Ore. — Tomorrow marks the International Shakeout, when millions of people around the world will hold earthquake drills. In Oregon, the event coincides with a major discovery by local ...