Researchers took a ship off the coasts of Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia over the summer of 2021 to map the Cascadia Subduction Zone – discovering one plate near Washington is smoother ...

Researchers using new technology to map the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the U.S. West Coast discovered a new danger zone. Here’s where, and why.

Map showing the location of the Cascadia subduction zone. (Image credit: Federal Emergency Management Agency) The data covered 560 miles (900 km) of the boundary between the continental North ...

To map the subduction zone, researchers at sea performed active source seismic imaging, a technique that sends sound to the ocean floor and then processes the echoes that return.

Sub-seafloor map of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, showing depth of the fault between the eastward-moving Juan de Fuca place and the North American plate.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Around 9 p.m. on January 26th, 1700, a powerful magnitude 9.0 earthquake struck along the Cascadia Subduction Zone, which extends from Vancouver Island in British ...

The map of the Cascadia Subduction Zone showed several interesting findings. First, it confirmed a previous theory that "smaller, horizontal faults cut through both the upper and lower plates ...

Alaska, Hawaii and areas along the mainland West Coast would be at risk if an earthquake erupts along the Cascadia subduction zone within the next 50 years.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

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 ...