While exploring the ocean in a deep-sea submersible, scientists say they discovered a flourishing ecosystem capable of ...

Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have helped develop an advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting ...

Towering walls of water traveling at the speed of a jetliner, with coastal communities from Japan and Hawaii to South America ...

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

Currently, Earth's exterior ocean is the Pacific. The Pacific also has a rift in the middle, but it is bounded by subduction zones and thus will eventually close.

Scientists have captured the first detailed images of the meeting of two tectonic plates off the coast of northern British ...

The Pacific "Ring of Fire" is a seismically active zone encircling the Pacific Ocean, where frequent earthquakes and numerous ...

A magnitude 8.8 monster off the eastern coast of Russia threatened tens of millions of people with a tsunami risk. So why did ...

Warm fluid is shooting “like a firehose” into the Pacific Ocean off the Oregon coast and researchers believe it’s regulating pressure on the Cascadia Subduction Zone, the offshore fault that ...

The quake in Russia on Wednesday was among the strongest ever recorded — but in many places, the resulting wave was small.

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 ...