Northern California’s coast keeps you on alert, even on quiet days. Offshore, three tectonic plates meet near Humboldt County ...

Tremors beneath Northern California show hidden plate movement, helping scientists better understand where future big ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore.

Large subduction-zone earthquakes leave scars on the continental slope in the deep sea.

Map highlighting the Atlantic subduction zones, the fully developed Lesser Antilles and Scotia arcs on the western side and the incipient Gibraltar arc on the eastern side. From Duarte et al., 2018.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is quietly loading energy that will one day unleash a megathrust earthquake, and a growing cluster of new measurements suggests that the system is edging closer to failure ...

Beijing Zhongke Journal Publising Co. Ltd. The Makran Subduction Zone, located in the northeastern Arabian Sea, is an active tectonic region where the Arabian Plate is subducting beneath the Eurasian ...

Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...