"It's giving us a glimpse into Earth's past that we've never had before." Subduction occurs when one tectonic plate slides beneath another, recycling surface material back into Earth's mantle.

This idea would rule out that meteorites or subduction zones were required to form TTGs and, subsequently, continents. The formation of the Earth’s continents occurred during a fiery afterbirth ...

Caption The Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating powerful earthquakes. The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that ...

An international study, including researchers from The University of Western Australia, has unveiled new pathways to future ...

Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

Cratons are believed to be the longest-lived regions of the Earth, but a new study shows how dynamic processes can cause their eventual disintegration.

Sometime – maybe sometime soon – that pressure will be released. When the Cascadia Subduction Zone ruptures, it is likely to create a massive earthquake that will be felt across the Pacific ...

The U.S. Geological Survey says an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 has struck off the southern coast of Oregon ...

Wednesday afternoon's 6.0 magnitude earthquake struck about 173 miles west of Bandon. A tsunami is not expected.

Cratons are fascinating yet enigmatic geological formations. Known to be relatively stable portions of the Earth's ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck the southern coast of Oregon this week, but no tsunami was expected, ...