Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds ...

Huang says finding active areas of subduction zones where earthquakes tend to occur, and examining why earthquakes occur in these areas, can help researchers devise better earthquake warning systems.

The advice given when there’s a long and strong earthquake is to “get gone” because of the potential tsunami risk, but would ...

Residents are urged to secure household items, maintain emergency kits, and participate in statewide drills such as the Great ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each ...

A flurry of earthquakes in the Seattle area over the last couple of weeks has some residents asking if that means the "Big ...

Convergent plate margins associated with lithospheric subduction often exhibit pronounced along-strike curvature, shaped by the interplay of topography, sediment transport, plate interface ...

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...