Consequently, knowledge of the ‘background’ forearc in regions of normal plate convergence is limited. We report on an ∼250-km-long multichannel seismic reflection profile that was shot perpendicular ...

Image by kamchatka via Depositphotos. Stretching along the eastern coast of Russia, the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench reaches depths of 10,542 meters. It is part of a subduction zone that extends from Japan ...

The hulking rock, called Maka Lahi, is the size of a two-story house and sits on a 120-foot-tall cliff, covered in vegetation ...

Kermadec Initiative director Bronwen Golder today wrote to MPs, citing Cameron's words. Scientists from around the world are conducting ''leading edge research'' in the trench, she wrote.

Several miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, scientists aboard a submersible scanned the shadowy seafloor for signs of life. Soon enough, a “long” purple sea creature caught their ...

Just a stone’s throw from the ocean, indeed.Small family farms dot the southern coast of Tongatapu, the largest island of ...

Tonga is more than 1,000 miles away from North Island, but they’re both located along the Tonga-Kermadec Trench, an underwater point where two tectonic plates meet. More specifically ...

The Maka Lahi boulder is the largest cliff-top boulder in the world, researchers said. Photo by Köhler, M., Lau, A., Nakata, K., Goto, K., Goff, J., Köhler, D. and ...