Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

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

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 ...

Would it take one flip in a deep-sea current to release enough carbon to double atmospheric CO₂? In 2023, Spanish ...

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 ...

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, ...

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

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 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.

The authors surprisingly found this long-lasting signature in volcanic rocks in the western Pacific, they surmised that material must’ve have spread from Tethys—an ocean that dominated the ...

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 ...