Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

In regions of convergence, one plate can sink under another in a subduction zone, or two colliding plates can form a mountain belt. At divergent boundaries, plates move away from each other and ...

Figure 1: Slip along the plate boundary fault of a subduction zone. Although a recent analysis of NVT in Cascadia supports its origin at the plate boundary interface, (K. Creager, Univ.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

"The main takeaway is that the subduction zone plate boundary contains much more foliated, damaged rocks than what we thought about before at this kilometer scale, which is relevant to earthquake ...

Satellites passing through this area often experience malfunctions, with systems crashing, data corruption, and equipment ...

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 centred in the Sagaing region near the Myanmar city of Mandalay caused extensive ...

If you live in Greater Victoria, you know that earthquakes are a given due to our location near the Cascadia Subduction Zone: ...