A groundbreaking study in Science Advances reveals that Earth's tectonic plates are breaking apart under the Cascadia ...

Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic crust into the mantle ...

Scientists have, for the first time, observed the Cascadia subduction zone off Vancouver Island actively breaking apart.

Scientists have recorded the process of disintegration of the subduction zone. A study led by specialists from Louisiana State University and the Lamont-Doherty Observatory at Columbia University has ...

For the first time, scientists have watched a subduction zone literally fall apart beneath the ocean floor. Using advanced ...

The undersea plate boundary beneath the Strait of Gibraltar, known as the Gibraltar arc, is slowly moving into the Atlantic ...

In a time where humanity is already threatening to destroy the world, the last thing we need is planet Earth to literally ...

Ancient tectonic plates continue to reshape the Earth's interior and reveal a deep connection to its global dynamics ...

Earthquakes and volcanism occur as a result of plate tectonics. The movement of tectonic plates themselves is largely driven by the process known as subduction. The question of how new active ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet some of these giant structures vanished deep into the mantle, hidden from ...

On July 29, 2025, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake occurred near the Kamchatka Peninsula. It was so powerful that it ranks as the ...