Groundbreaking Discovery in Offshore Sediment Cores Two fault systems on North America's West Coast – the Cascadia subduction ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ground beneath Portugal, Spain and northern Morocco shook violently on Nov. 1, 1755, during ...

Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into the tectonic plate shifts that create some of the Earth's largest earthquakes and tsunamis. Groundbreaking research has provided new insight into ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Since January of 1700, pressure has been building beneath the waters of the Pacific. Off the coast of Oregon and Washington, several tectonic plates have been sliding under the plate beneath the North ...

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.