Kamchatka Peninsula: Russia's Restless Eastern Edge 8 earthquake struck at a depth of 35 km off the far eastern coast of ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is living up to its name, with scientists tracking a chain of restless faults and volcanoes that ...

A novel three-dimensional model of the fluid stored deep in Earth's crust along the Cascadia Subduction Zone provides new insight into how the accumulation and release of those fluids may influence ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. (KOIN) — Researchers with Oregon State University revealed a three-dimensional fluid model that gives new insight on seismic activity in the Pacific Northwest. According to OSU, the ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

The SZ4D Implementation Plan details how the scientific community plans to make major advances in understanding subduction zone hazards. Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath ...

The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off ...

(a) Geological units and earthquake distribution of an oceanic subduction zone. The orange shadow beneath the volcanic arc represents partially molten areas and magma channels. (b) Thermal structure ...

Along 1,100 kilometers, from Mexico to Costa Rica, lies the Central American volcanic arc, where the variety of magma types make for a geological paradise. By Pablo Fonseca Q. / Knowable Magazine ...