The Nankai subduction zone, in southern Japan, has hosted several large magnitude 8+ earthquakes during the last three ...

A new study suggests Alaska could get 10–120 seconds of warning before major quakes, with more seismic stations adding up to ...

Here's what we know about what caused the earthquake off Russia's Far East and why the tsunami it generated weren't as big as ...

The destructive power of megathrust faults like the Cascadia Subduction Zone means they’re of great interest to scientists, as when it comes to tsunamis, early detection is one of our best forms ...

Earthquakes remind us that even the ground beneath our feet can have a mind of its own. For Anchorage citizens, that reality ...

The magnitude-8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka peninsula sent a wave of water racing at the speed of a jetliner toward ...

Subduction zones around the world, areas where one tectonic plate shifts under another, create the largest earthquakes – those over magnitude 8.0 – triggering tsunamis and altering ecosystems ...

The tsunami advisories from Tuesday are a good reminder for people in Western Washington to know their plan of when to ...

As the most seismically active regions in the world, oceanic subduction zones show contrasting seismicity in different regions. A review by a team from Nanjing University explored the ...

Broadly, this study shows that subduction invasion, the process whereby a new subduction zone forms in an exterior ocean and then migrates to an interior ocean, is likely a common mechanism of ...

The Cascadia subduction zone has the potential to rock the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia with devastating earthquakes. Now, a closer-than-ever look at the megafault's structure reveals it ...

Discover a vast, previously unknown world of microbial life that survives—and even thrives—for hundreds of millions of years ...