The multi-year pursuit by the Ocean Beach School District for state dollars to address seismic vulnerabilities at its Ilwaco ...

Did you know the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean, has about 750 to 915 active or dormant ...

Scientists believe they’ve found a window into the dawn of time on Earth, and it’s hidden beneath the Pacific Ocean. A team led by geophysicist ... time one tectonic plate slid under another in a ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Institute of Oceanography have spotted a strange animal at the junction of three tectonic plates ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute spotted the animal while using an underwater robot to scour the seabed.

The study’s lead author, Dr Caroline Orchiston of the University of Otago, said much of that threat came from the Puysegur ...

The present solid Earth is actually active, with new plates generating in the mid-ocean ridges and some old plates sinking back into the interior through subduction zones. Subduction is thus a key ...

Where the two former plates meet a ridge runs perpendicular to the subduction zone; it's the only place in the world where an ocean ridge is being subducted beneath a continental plate. This means ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The Schmidt Ocean Institute also used the post to share a bit more about the importance of the Chile Margin expedition. "It runs the entire length of South America due to the subduction of the ...