In 2011, the seafloor jolted and sent waves up to 133 feet (41 meters) high over parts of Japan. In 2004, the entire planet vibrated as an undersea quake near Sumatra pushed tsunamis over coastlines ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, produce the most devastating seismic, volcanic, and landslide hazards on the planet. A new report presents an ambitious plan to make ...

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 ...

MELBOURNE, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- An Australian-led science team says it has developed a new global map of subduction zones that could help predict where giant earthquakes might strike. The effort, led by ...

A subduction zone occurs when two of the Earth's tectonic plates meet and one moves beneath the other. As the bottom plate continues, it moves downward and eventually, pressure and heat cause the ...

The magnitude 6.5 earthquake off the coast of Northern California Thursday morning occurred on a fault called the Mendocino Transform, not the more dangerous Cascadia Subduction Zone. But ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A budding subduction zone offshore of Spain heralds the start of a new cycle that will one day ...

Science continues to make new discoveries on many different fronts. One of them is the Cascadia Subduction fault that runs from British Columbia down to Northern California. See this article, Parts of ...

The plate tectonic theory has been primarily developed in three stages. (1) From continental drift and seafloor spreading to oceanic subduction, laying a physical foundation of the plate tectonic ...