In the modern world, there are many foreland basin systems, including the interior of South America, east of the Andes, a subduction boundary; and the depositional basins bordering the Himalayas and ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...

The Cascadia subduction zone, where the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate descends beneath ... implying they can occur as far west as the Puget Lowland and Georgia basin. The 2001 magnitude 6.8 Nisqually ...

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 ...

According to a press release from the University of Washington, the hole was found on top of the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault. This fault is located in the Pacific Northwest. The leak was ...

Geologist Robert Yeats, author of 'Earthquake Time Bombs', has highlighted the risks associated with the presence of several large US cities in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone.

Visualization of thermal state and slab depth in the Makran Subduction Zone Fig 2 Slab geometry and subduction velocities of the Arabian Plate. The color of the slab indicates the depth.

But, why no tsunami? Most tsunamis around the Pacific Basin are caused by major displacements of the sea floor during very large subduction zone earthquakes at one of the trenches around the edges ...

"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 ...

Tsunamis have hit Washington and the Puget Sound region in the past, and they will happen again in the future.