A massive earthquake will one day rattle the Pacific Northwest. Minutes to hours later, a surge of seawater will swallow the ...

The giant plate boundary that is the Hikurangi Subduction Zone has the potential to cause magnitude-8.0 “megathrust” ...

A subduction zone is created where two plates converge, with one sinking into the mantle. Dynamics along the plate interface create earthquakes, magma generated above the sinking slab leads to ...

A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench coupled with a landward line of volcanoes, creates a series of offshore islands (the Aleutians) as well as a line of volcanoes along the ...

What happens, then, to keep the Earth the same size? The answer is subduction. In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath the overlying North American plate, extends 1100 km from northern California to northern Vancouver Island.

A new algorithm used to analyze sediment layers of the seafloor is helping scientists pinpoint the timing of past Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquakes to determine when the next big one will come.

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 ...

"Recognizing areas where flat slab subduction has occurred in the past is crucial for discovering new copper resources, which means this new innovative approach could significantly enhance our ...