Rather than shutting down all at once like a "big train wreck," the Juan de Fuca plate is ripping apart piece by piece, ...

The Cascade Subduction Zone affects where the ocean meets the land, and that land is rising in some parts of the Oregon Coast.

A book lover returns to the timeless pleasure of getting lost amid the stacks and stumbling onto new treasures.

There's something deeply unsettling about not knowing when the ground beneath your feet might betray you. Unlike hurricanes, ...

Regina Barber and Katia Riddle of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about prehistoric cooking, earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest and how teens are sleeping less than before.

A research team led by a Keele scientist has shed new light on how a mysterious rock formation in Oman was created, which could reveal new details about Earth's ability to store carbon dioxide (CO2).

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to California, the fault marks the ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

We report results from a wide-angle controlled source seismic experiment across the Juan de Fuca plate designed to investigate the evolution of the plate from accretion at the Juan de Fuca ridge to ...

“If we don’t understand the underlying tectonic processes, it’s hard to predict the seismic hazard,” said co-author Amanda Thomas, professor of earth and planetary sciences at UC Davis. Three of the ...

Deep-sea landslides in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia subduction zone hold a record of earthquakes dating back 7,500 years, and similar markers may be found in other tectonic plate boundaries ...