Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate ...

Earth's "gold kitchen" lies deep beneath the seafloor. Island arcs, whose volcanoes form above subduction zones where one ...

New research from Adelaide University has revealed that geological processes dating back billions of years are critical to ...

Newly-released research led by the University of Washington (UW) showed that a feature scientists hypothesized was present along the Cascadia Subduction Zone is missing in places. What does that mean ...

New research published recently in the journal Science Advances considers the process of tectonic plate subduction. The study is a collaboration between scientists at the Scripps Institution of ...

Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is “unusually quiet,” for a megathrust fault, making it more difficult for scientists to ...

It’s the 323rd anniversary of the last Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. We spend a fair amount of time thinking about the ‘Big One’ (and the ‘Really Big One’) in the Pacific Northwest. Today is ...

How is plate subduction factory operated during continental collision? How do physical mixing and chemical reaction proceed at colliding continental margins of different depths? How is continental ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the Pacific Northwest is overdue for an earthquake – and when it happens, coastal ...