Amidst the tsunami-prone Cascadia Subduction Zone lies Pythia’s Oasis, a hole in the ocean floor, which serves as a ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die and form new geological boundaries. With unprecedented clarity, researchers ...

A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...

OSU researchers find Cascadia Subduction Zone and San Andreas Fault may be synchronized — with the potential for quakes on ...

Scientists compared sediment deposits created by underwater landslides from earthquakes within the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process ...

The relationship between the sites means an earthquake in one zone can trigger an earthquake in the other in a phenomenon ...

The hole in the ocean was a spring with water flowing in from under the ocean floor through a fault called the Cascadia ...

Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...

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The so-called “Big One” or Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake expected to trigger disruptive quakes throughout the West ...

Map highlighting the Atlantic subduction zones, the fully developed Lesser Antilles and Scotia arcs on the western side and the incipient Gibraltar arc on the eastern side. From Duarte et al., 2018.