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Cascadia fault megaquake was the worst-case scenario. Scientists just found an even bigger problem
A megaquake in the Pacific Northwest could trigger a large earthquake along California's San Andreas Fault, creating an ...
A subduction zone breaking apart was caught in real time, showing how Earth’s tectonic plates die, detach, and reshape the ...
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Earth's crust is tearing apart off the Pacific Northwest—and that's not necessarily bad news
With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate ...
A monster earthquake on the feared Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest could trigger a near-simultaneous rupture on the San Andreas Fault, new research shows.
The Juan de Fuca Plate has been steadily pushing against the Pacific Coast as it slides beneath the North American Plate. But ...
(a) Geological units and earthquake distribution of an oceanic subduction zone. The orange shadow beneath the volcanic arc represents partially molten areas and magma channels. (b) Thermal structure ...
Two fault systems on North America’s West Coast – the Cascadia subduction zone and the San Andreas fault – may be synchronized, with earthquakes on one fault potentially triggering seismic events on ...
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 ...
About 50 miles off the coast of Newport, hot, mineral-laden seawater is seeping out of the ocean floor at an unprecedented rate. Researchers at the University of Washington say the liquid acts as a ...
Oceanography, Vol. 32, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE ON SCIENTIFIC OCEAN DRILLING: Looking to the Future (MARCH 2019), pp. 80-93 (14 pages) Scientific ocean drilling from 2007 through 2018 has played a major ...
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