"This is the first large scale ocean bottom seismic experiment conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone," said Dr. Catherine Rychert, formerly an Associate Professor at the University of ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

These metals form in the upper crust at depths of a few kilometers (several miles). But how do they form and why are they concentrated there? (A) Diagram of a subduction zone illustrating the transfer ...

The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is where the Pacific plate drops westward under the Australian plate. It sits just off the east coast of the North Island. Subduction zones generate the largest ...

While this causes “strike slip” quakes that are normally less powerful than those seen in “subduction zones” like Indonesia’s Sumatra, where one plate slides under another, they can ...

While this causes "strike slip" quakes that are normally less powerful than those seen in "subduction zones" like Sumatra, where one plate slides under another, they can still reach magnitudes of ...

While this causes “strike slip” quakes that are normally less powerful than those seen in “subduction zones” like Sumatra, where one plate slides under another, they can still reach ...

The agency said the earthquake was caused by the Sagaing Fault, a major fault line located 1,200 km east of the Indo-Burma subduction zone. The energy from the earthquake spread toward Bangkok ...

That dubious honour goes to subduction zones in places like Sumatra and Japan that generate the magnitude 9 earthquakes that caused the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004 or the Tohoku tsunami of 2011.

Magnitude: 9.5 Date: May 22, 1960 Details: This earthquake is the most powerful ever recorded. It occurred in a subduction zone where the Pacific plate dives under the South American plate. Magnitude: ...