New evidence suggests current estimates about tsunami size and how quickly waves make it to shore may be too high and too ...

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 ...

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward ...

In subduction zone earthquakes, not only are there strong, long ground-shaking events, but multiple aftershocks and tsunamis. Scientists agree it's not a matter of if, but when On May 12, ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone looks a little different than researchers thought. Here's what that means for 'The Big One' Although the hazards may be different, that does not mean the risk is less ...

An earthquake of magnitude 3.5 hit Nepal on Sunday morning, as reported by the National Center of Seismology (NCS). As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at 8:21 AM Indian Standard Time (IST).

Although the flooding was quite different for each of the five events, it was closer to the margins of the continent where there was active subduction. So, the data and theory seem to fit nicely.

A modeling study suggests a slumbering subduction zone below the Gibraltar Strait is active and could break into the Atlantic Ocean in 20 million years' time, giving birth to an Atlantic "Ring of ...