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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Schematic figure of the subduction zone underneath the Kanto region (left) in Japan and the spatial distribution of magnitude 2 to 6 earthquakes on the subduction zone at 60 to 70 kilometers below ...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...