The Asia-Pacific head of the International Federation of Red Cross’ Katie Greenwood ... Vanuatu’s position on a subduction zone — where the Indo-Australian tectonic plate moves beneath ...

"This is the most detailed cross-section of a continent ever put together," says ... starting at the Cascadia subduction zone and traversing the mountain belts, Canadian Shield, Appalachians, to the ...

New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...

EUGENE, Ore. (NBC) -- When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet ...

The Pacific Northwest is ripe for a major earthquake — and shaking and tsunamis wouldn’t be the only threats from such an event, according to new research. Coastal land would also sink nearly seven ...

An earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone with a magnitude greater than 8.0 could cause a sudden subsidence – the sinking of land – that, paired with rising sea levels, would enlarge ...

Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Joe by emailing [email protected] A major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause coastal land from to sink permanently ...

In the past, such anomalies were usually linked to subduction zones—places where one tectonic plate slides beneath another. In those zones, slabs of oceanic crust plunge into the mantle ...