Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate ...

In subduction zones, the sites of the world's largest earthquakes, tectonic activity may generate a "pump" that transports ...

A new study has found that most rare earth deposits – sources of metals essential for electronics and clean energy ...

Geologists have a quiet saying that goes something like this: the ground does not forget. Every fracture in the earth's crust ...

A massive 9.2 magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone is long overdue, and the Pacific Northwest is ...

New research published recently in the journal Science Advances considers the process of tectonic plate subduction. The study is a collaboration between scientists at the Scripps Institution of ...

A new UW study on the Cascadia Subduction Zone was released in February 2026. The study indicated that a difference between ...

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 ...

It’s the 323rd anniversary of the last Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. We spend a fair amount of time thinking about the ‘Big One’ (and the ‘Really Big One’) in the Pacific Northwest. Today is ...

A swarm of offshore earthquakes that has been active since midnight poses no danger to people on land in the Pacific ...

How is plate subduction factory operated during continental collision? How do physical mixing and chemical reaction proceed at colliding continental margins of different depths? How is continental ...