An enormous area of the Earth’s crust has torn and slumped, dropping about 5 kilometers (3 miles). We’ve only just noticed ...

Far from boring, this period saw the reorganization of deep Earth in manners that prepared the way for life to grow complex.

For the first time, scientists have observed how a subducting oceanic plate actively breaks apart into fragments, forming ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, otherwise known as “The Big One,” is an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 7.1 ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a vast, horseshoe-shaped belt around the Pacific Ocean that is the world's most seismically and volcanically active zone. This region contains roughly 75% of the world’s ...

For generations, scientists believed that the West Coast’s two great earthquake engines — the Cascadia subduction zone and ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

Taftan looms 3,940 meters above Iran’s Makran subduction zone, a rugged region where the Arabian plate dives beneath the ...

How to predict when Ruapehu might next erupt is an important, but difficult, question. A group of researchers thought: why ...

A Swansea University volcanologist is set to explore one of Earth’s most mysterious underwater landscapes as part of a ...

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