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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Almost three-quarters of our world is covered in saltwater, and, on average, the ocean is about 12,100 feet or 2.3 miles deep. But in certain places, the sea floor plummets to truly astonishing ...