A 4.5 magnitude earthquake by Orcas Island was the largest to hit Washington since 2020. Here’s how you can prepare for even a minor quake.

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

The Supreme Winner of this year’s Science New Zealand Awards is Grasslanz Technology, a subsidiary of AgResearch that has made a significant contribution to our economy and environment. The Supreme ...

These landslides were triggered by great earthquakes along the country’s largest fault, the megathrust in the Hikurangi ...

The last major Cascadia quake struck in 1700, and with an average recurrence interval of 550 years, so that means, the next ...

This study, published in Earth and Planetary Physics, explores the subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismic ...

During subduction, talc undergoes super-hydration to a 15 Å phase near 90 km depth under alkaline, saltwater conditions. This super-hydrated phase carries ~31 weight-% water, which can ...