"This is the first large scale ocean bottom seismic experiment conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone," said Dr. Catherine Rychert, formerly an Associate Professor at the University of ...

The Juan de Fuca Plate is slowly being subducted beneath the North American Plate along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which runs from northern California to British Columbia. This tectonic ...

The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction zone along the continent's west coast, with the former sliding beneath the latter and recycling its material into the mantle.

Coos Bay, home to more than 15,000 people, lies within just eight miles of the Cascadia Subduction Zone: a megathrust fault where the Juan de Fuca plate slides beneath the North American plate.

The 7.7-magnitude earthquake that rocked Myanmar and Thailand on March 28 is a chilling reminder for everyone to start taking seriously the ever-present threats that come with living in the so-called ...

For decades, scientists have tried to identify when plate tectonics first began, marking the earliest evolution of life. The chemical signature of rocks formed in subduction zones (where one plate has ...

A diagram showing how Earth's crust and upper mantle (together known as the lithosphere) could be dripping into the mantle due to the Farallon slab. (Image credit: Hua et al. Nature Geoscience (2025)) ...

Next-generation sequencing has enabled precision therapeutic approaches that have improved the lives of children with rare diseases. Congenital diarrhea and enteropathies (CODEs) are associated ...

A short summary of western California’s geological history shows that until about 28 million years ago the western continental margin was a “subduction zone” with the Farallon Plate subducting beneath ...