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

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 ...

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 ...

They found an unusually thick area in the mantle transition zone ... including volcanoes, earthquakes and deep marine trenches. While geologists typically study subduction by examining rock ...

Contrary to elementary-school diagrams of how volcanoes work ... Similar systems are at work at other volcanoes in subduction zones, including Mount St. Helens in the Cascades.