This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault ... a marine geophysicist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, who led the research.

A subduction zone is created where two plates converge, with one sinking into the mantle. Dynamics along the plate interface create earthquakes, magma generated above the sinking slab leads to ...

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

in Japan and the spatial distribution of magnitude 2 to 6 earthquakes on the subduction zone at 60 to 70 kilometers below Earth's surface (right). The inset of the left figure demonstrates the ...

Subduction zones are the most important sites of material exchange between the crust and mantle on Earth. They are also the locations where the largest deposits ... But how do they form and why are ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, ...

Satellites passing through this area often experience malfunctions, with systems crashing, data corruption, and equipment ...

as AR4046 has now moved into the "Earth strike zone," meaning any CME it produces in the coming days has a much higher chance of hitting our planet. If this flare is accompanied by a CME ...

The Earth is made up of different layers ... Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and ...