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 ...

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 ...

The Atlantic Ocean may begin to shrink, said a new study published in the journal Geology.Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the ...

Although it may seem like an eternal feature of Earth, the Atlantic Ocean could be swallowed by a vast subduction zone, dubbed the 'Ring of Fire', a new study warns.

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults ...

A modelling study indicates that a dormant subduction zone beneath the Gibraltar Strait is indeed active and might breach into the Atlantic Ocean in approximately 20 million years, potentially ...

Subduction is transmitted from ocean to ocean." The researchers concluded that invasive subduction may be a common way that oceans like the Atlantic start to close and, ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course ...

The second-largest earthquake in the U.S. was a magnitude-9.0 in 1700, which occurred at the Cascadia Subduction Zone, site of the leak.

This hidden geological layer, located between 254 and 410 miles (410 and 660 kilometers) beneath the Earth’s surface, covers an extraordinary distance of 205 miles (330 kilometers), hinting at a ...

Now a new study suggests that hundreds of millions of years ago, a process known as subduction “invasion” or “infection,” might've kickstarted the eastern Ring of Fire by causing ...

The Cascadia subduction zone is a fault that stretches from Northern Vancouver Island to Cape Mendocino, California. Google Earth. Researchers from Virginia Tech found that a potential powerful ...