With a massive Cascadia subduction zone earthquake looming in the Pacific Northwest, Oregon lawmakers are considering a bill ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

Indonesia’s National Research & Innovation Agency (BRIN – Badan Riset dan Inovasi Nasional), jointly with the Meteorology, ...

Devastating earthquake in Myanmar reveals tectonic complexities, historical patterns, and potential risks for South Asia.

The Cascadia subduction zone stretches from northern California ... one will strike — tomorrow or a century from now,' Yeats explained. If 'The Big One' does strike soon, Yeats predicted ...

Earth's crust today has a surprisingly similar composition to the planet's first outer shell, or "protocrust," new research ...

"This is the first large scale ocean bottom seismic experiment conducted at an Atlantic subduction zone," said Dr. Catherine Rychert, formerly an Associate Professor at the University of ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

These metals form in the upper crust at depths of a few kilometers (several miles). But how do they form and why are they concentrated there? (A) Diagram of a subduction zone illustrating the transfer ...

BRIN and BMKG are jointly studying the potential risk of a tsunami impacting the proposed site for the first Nuclear Power ...