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

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

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

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

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

Scientists have, for the first time, captured detailed images of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate breaking into fragments beneath the Cascadia subduction zone. The high-resolution seismic imaging ...

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 ...

The earthquakes took place along the Blanco Fracture Zone, a transform fault system off the Pacific Northwest coast, with the ...

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