A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck near Auburn Saturday morning with reports of it being felt in Tacoma and Seattle. The ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake shook near Squamish, British Columbia on Friday afternoon. The earthquake was reported at 1:26 p.m ...

When plates come together at convergent boundaries, they often slide under each other, which is called subduction. All of ...

Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, two pieces of the Earth’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude ...

A subduction zone is created where two plates converge, with one sinking into the mantle. Dynamics along the plate interface create earthquakes, magma generated above the sinking slab leads to ...

More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip over and under each other — can push land to open or close oceans. Researchers found that an inactive subduction zone under the ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

What happens, then, to keep the Earth the same size? The answer is subduction. In locations around the world, ocean crust subducts, or slides under, other pieces of Earth's crust. The boundary ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – January 26 marked the 325th anniversary since the last earthquake struck the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Centuries later, the ancient quake has left clues for scientists to ...

Currently, none of Portland's bridges open to vehicular traffic that span the Willamette River would survive a major Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake, leaving the city's core potentially cut ...