New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

The other two earthquake scenarios are along fault lines in Kanchanaburi and the Arakan subduction zone. The fault line in Kanchanaburi, which produced a 5.9-magnitude earthquake in 1983 ...

Pretend, if you can, that the last week didn’t happen (a tall order for the Stratechery demographic, I know), and imagine another scenario: China invades Taiwan. What happens then? I’m not a military ...

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 ...

The deeper ones occur in the southern regions closer to Indonesia or the Indo-Burmese regions in the north, bordering the subduction front along the Indo-Eurasian plates. The 2025 Mandalay ...

What's even more intriguing is what's causing it. Some 600 kilometers (373 miles) from the craton, the ancient Farallon tectonic plate is sliding underneath the North American tectonic plate, a ...

Some of these early large impacts may have also initiated periodic subduction – the downward and sideways movement – of tectonic plates that eventually fell into the continuous, self ...