I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Caption The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating powerful earthquakes. The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that ...

One of these hidden plates was found underneath the western Pacific. However, there is no evidence of plate subduction—a geological process in which one tectonic plate is forced beneath another ...

The Earth's surface is constantly reshaped by the movement of tectonic plates, which make up the continental crust on which ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each ...

January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia subduction zone. Centuries later, the ...

Megathrust earthquakes occur when stress at subduction zones is released, causing significant plate slippage. These events disrupt long-term tectonic changes, complicating modeling efforts.