A schematic cross section of the Cascadia Subduction Zone shows the ocean floor plate (light gray) moving under the North American continental plate, along with other features. Credit: U.S ...

The image is a west-to-east cross-section of the subduction zone. The curved, dark blue region is a slab of subducting oceanic crust called the Juan de Fuca plate, which sinks below the Pacific ...

The section that runs from Newport to Astoria was previously thought to rupture about every 400 to 500 years, but the new data shows that interval is closer to 350 years.

It’s almost like a CT scan of the Earth that shows a cross-section view of our planet’s interior. ... mapping other ancient ...

New Zealand is the site of one of the world's youngest subduction zones, where the Pacific Plate of Earth's crust dives beneath the Australian Plate. Now, a study shows how water deep underground ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a 620-mile-long fault that stretches from British Columbia to Northern California, and pressure is building daily.

A schematic cross section of the Cascadia Subduction Zone shows the ocean floor plate (light grey) moving under the North American continental plate, along with other features.

EUGENE, Ore. (NBC) -- When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet ...

A novel three-dimensional model of the fluid stored deep in Earth's crust along the Cascadia Subduction Zone provides new insight into how the accumulation and release of those fluids may ...

Now, new research reveals how this baby subduction zone came to be: Over millions of years, a bit of the "hidden" continent of Zealandia on the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates ...

The last time Washington experienced an earthquake from the Cascadia Subduction Zone was Jan. 26, 1700. It ... by the 500 miles per hour of tsunami energy it takes to cross an ocean to ...