I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

The new bridge will be earthquake-ready, so crews are digging a 10-foot-wide, 125-foot-deep hole to see how concrete supports react during a simulated seismic event.

Crews are finishing up digging a 125-foot hole to install a test foundation that they'll use to test the earthquake-resistant ...

One of the most active volcanoes in the world sits just a few hundred miles off the U.S. West Coast, and some scientists believe it’s only a matter of time before it erupts again – maybe even before ...

The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science ... predictability of earthquakes at the place two tectonic plates meet, called a subduction zone. Currently, there are no concrete warning signs produced ...

The San Andreas fault in Southern California is a strike-slip fault, meaning two tectonic plates move horizontally against each other. The offshore Cascadia Subduction Zone is known as a megathrust ...

Recently, I purchased a set of plates that looked like they were from the '70s, and I use them nearly every night. One evening while admiring the design, I began to wonder what year, exactly ...

This means that the denser lower portion of the plate is detaching from the lighter upper part as it pushes against the Eurasian plate. This detachment is not a simple process; instead, it involves ...

This collision presented two possible outcomes: one plate overriding the other, or both plates rotating during their collision, resulting in either upward or downward movement ... downwards in a ...

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

An octopus swims along the flanks of the Axial Seamount, an undersea volcano. Photo: Courtesy of Bill Chadwick/Oregon State University ...