Researchers found that a potential powerful earthquake combined with rising sea levels could lead to a mega tsunami.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone looks a little different than researchers thought. Here's what that means for "The Big One." ...

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 ...

The Toba volcanic eruption in Indonesia, the largest volcanic eruption in the past 2 million years, was from a subduction zone volcano, according to Oregon State University. Michael Dhar is a ...

The Axial Seamount is located 300 miles off of the coast of Oregon. Researchers say it's following patterns shown before its ...

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 ...

Subduction zones are found around the world, mostly in coastal regions where an oceanic plate dives beneath a continental plate. The resulting geohazards include the largest earthquakes and tsunamis, ...