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 ...

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 ...

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

A 4.4 magnitude earthquake near Jhajjar was felt across Delhi-NCR on Thursday highlighting the region's seismic risk and lack ...

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

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

If subduction spreads this way, could the Atlantic Ocean ’s relatively quiet plate margins be next? The massive 1755 Lisbon earthquake hints at early subduction invasion there.

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

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 ...

Will Japans Baba Vangas earthquake and tsunami prediction come true? Scientists have detected small tremors that are ...