The Oregon Legislative session saw several thousand bills introduced in the first week, with more piling on since the session ...

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

Yonder covers tribal and rural communities on the coast of the Pacific Northwest that are taking action to survive ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck about 143 miles southwest of Tofino, B.C., at around 5:53 a.m. A second 3.0 magnitude ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

Sources of rare earth elements are frequently associated with volcanoes, dormant or otherwise. Here on Earth, rare-earth ...

far from any known subduction zone. These anomalies could be remnants of ancient plates or accumulations of iron- or silica-rich rocks. These results, published in Scientific Reports, show that the ...

A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...

In the words of one high-ranking commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps: “We lost, we badly lost.” Iran’s ability to deter and wage war in recent decades was largely through gray zone methods.

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...