Now in Nature, Wannamaker and colleagues use electrical resistivity data to investigate a plate boundary in New Zealand where a subduction zone beneath the North Island is lengthening at the ...

marks the approximate northern limit of the subduction zone. Megathrust events with magnitudes that may exceed 9 occur every 200-600 years on the inter-plate boundary, where it is locked west of ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Schematic figure of the subduction zone underneath the Kanto region (left) in Japan and the spatial distribution of magnitude 2 to 6 earthquakes on the subduction zone at 60 to 70 kilometers below ...

a 600-mile geologic boundary just off the Pacific Northwest coast. Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia subduction zone, two pieces of the Earth’s crust slide against each other ...