A future Cascadia earthquake could unleash far more than just devastating shaking — it could sink large parts of the Pacific ...

The Cascadia subduction zone is one of many regions in the "Ring of Fire ... Dura and her team are documenting geologic evidence of past earthquake-driven subsidence as the Paleoseismology Working ...

On Feb. 19, the geology community lost one of our pillars. Gary Carver stepped into the next dimension leaving an impact on his discipline, the Humboldt Geology Department, and generations of ...

Paleoseismology is turning up portentous ... from British Columbia to Northern California, is called the Cascadia subduction zone. Subduction is the process by which an ocean plate nudges under ...

The Juan de Fuca Plate is slowly being subducted beneath the North American Plate along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which runs from northern California to British Columbia. This tectonic ...

In the past, such anomalies were usually linked to subduction zones—places where one tectonic plate slides beneath another. In those zones, slabs of oceanic crust plunge into the mantle ...

Coos Bay, home to more than 15,000 people, lies within just eight miles of the Cascadia Subduction Zone: a megathrust fault where the Juan de Fuca plate slides beneath the North American plate.

"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 ...