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 ...

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

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 ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and ...

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 ...

The model predicts that the extended subduction zone will form a new Atlantic subduction system – the so-called 'Ring of Fire', named after the Pacific Ocean version that already exists.

New evidence suggests current estimates about tsunami size and how quickly waves make it to shore may be too high and too ...

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.

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.

Through an ocean discovery program supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), ... Slow earthquakes in ocean subduction zones shed light on tsunami risk.

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.