The next great earthquake isn't the only threat to the Pacific Northwest. A powerful earthquake, combined with rising sea ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Subduction zones generate the largest earthquakes and tsunamis in the world. The Hikurangi Subduction ... Civil Defence updated its tsunami evacuation map to a single blue zone, highlighting ...

Buxton Resources has secured the first of three exploration licences covering its intriguing Royale copper-gold project in WA ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

"This is the first large scale ocean bottom seismic experiment conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone," said Dr. Catherine ... it now has a new claim to fame in the world of plate tectonics." ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

The Juan de Fuca Plate is slowly being subducted beneath the North American Plate along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which runs ... visit the USGS Earthquake Map.

The Farallon plate and the North American plate once formed a subduction zone along the continent's ... thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high ...