Focusing on an area off the coast of Crescent City, California, the researchers used autonomous and remotely operated ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off Oregon coast, triggering tsunami alert and concerns of aftershocks, as the Cascadia ...

Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new study mapping the Cascadia Subduction Zone is giving scientists clues about the state of the fault ...

This study is led by Prof. Zhong-Hai Li (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences). The present solid Earth is actually active, with new plates generating in the mid-ocean ridges and some old plates ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Centuries later, the ancient quake has left clues for scientists to ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

“The Cascadia Megathrust M9.0 Earthquake was selected as a scenario as it is currently one of the more likely earthquake ...

Map highlighting the Atlantic subduction zones, the fully developed Lesser Antilles and Scotia arcs on the western side and the incipient Gibraltar arc on the eastern side. From Duarte et al., 2018.