Washington hasn’t seen a major earthquake since the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake in 2001. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, ...
This study, published in Earth and Planetary Physics, explores the subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismic ...
A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...
Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...
But it isn't just California at risk. Washington sits along the Cascadia Subduction Zone that is capable of a 'megaquake', they said. Harold Tobin, director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Net ...
This earthquake is larger than much of the recent seismic activity around western Washington, per initial reports.
Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...
High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...