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 ...

A massive fault is tearing the Juan de Fuca plate apart deep beneath the seafloor, and the quietest parts of the crack are ...

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 ...

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

Scientists have, for the first time, clearly captured a subduction zone in the act of breaking apart. These zones form where one tectonic plate sinks ...

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 ...

Experts caution that the Cascadia Subduction Zone — a 700-mile long fault stretching from Northern California to British ...

It’s not a matter of if, but when. The big one, so to speak, is coming. And according to recent study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, there’s a 15% chance of a rupture in the ...

A new look at the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath the coast of northern Oregon suggests this subducting slab is shallower ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 4.0 magnitude earthquake was detected off the Oregon Coast on April 7. The earthquake happened at around 12:49 p.m., ...

If there is a magnitude 8 or 9 megathrust earthquake off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, data from ocean bottom ...