Washington hasn’t seen a major earthquake since the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake in 2001. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, last produced a major ...

This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault, a place where tectonic plates move against each ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

The Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge Project has been delayed until 2028 due to uncertainty on a federal level, but the ...

Jiaqi Fang and colleagues describe a new subduction model that can better capture both long-term tectonics and short-term earthquakes and that agrees with existing observations. The model combines ...

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

Caption The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating powerful earthquakes. The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that ...

A subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench coupled with a landward line of volcanoes, creates a series of offshore islands (the Aleutians) as well as a line of volcanoes along the ...

This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR), ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...