Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, two pieces of the Earth’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating powerful earthquakes. The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that the ...

Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters ... the plates can slip several meters and cause some of Earth's largest earthquakes. The timing and location of such megathrust ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault ... a marine geophysicist at Columbia University's ...

Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates have been discovered sunken deep inside the Earth's mantle ... plates because of the lack of nearby subduction zones. A computer model visualization of ...

The Earth is made up of different layers ... Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and ...

Using this method, scientists can develop models of the Earth’s interior that show where submerged plates formed along subduction zones (which is when a plate goes under, or subducts ...

They always found them where they expected them to be: in an area known as subduction zones, where two plates meet and one subducts beneath the other into the Earth's interior. This has helped ...