Seafloor cores record underwater avalanches of mud and sand, known as turbidity currents, as stacked layers called turbidites ...
Now experts are warning “The Big One” could be even worse than feared due to a horrific domino effect that could wipe out the ...
A devastating earthquake in Myanmar is giving scientists new insight into how major quakes start, spread, and grow. The ...
The Utah Geological Survey (UGS) has published two new geologic-hazard studies in Utah, identifying risks ranging from ...
Not all earthquake faults behave the same. Some stick and snap , causing earthquakes. Others move slowly over time.For years, the leading explanation ...
Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic crust into the mantle ...
Experts are delivering a disturbing alert: a colossal mega-tsunami reaching a thousand feet could potentially obliterate the ...
For the first time, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone breaking apart deep beneath the ocean, offering a ...
A massive fault is tearing the Juan de Fuca plate apart deep beneath the seafloor, and the quietest parts of the crack are ...
Most people picture earthquakes as a West Coast problem. California shakes regularly, the news covers it, and residents there ...
This story is part of a series. Go here to read part 1 and part 2. Four Santa Rosa City Schools elementary campuses sit atop or very near parts of a major fault line that runs through the center of ...
Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate beneath the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The finding briefly raised the public's ...