Imagine a scenario where the Pacific Northwest gets pummeled by a magnitude nine earthquake, only to have California's most ...
Large subduction-zone earthquakes leave scars on the continental slope in the deep sea.
Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...
By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...
Northern California’s coast keeps you on alert, even on quiet days. Offshore, three tectonic plates meet near Humboldt County ...
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off Oregon coast, triggering tsunami alert and concerns of aftershocks, as the Cascadia ...
Our planet's lithosphere is broken into several tectonic plates. Their configuration is ever-shifting, as supercontinents are assembled and broken up, and oceans form, grow, and then start to close in ...
South of New Zealand in the Tasman Sea is a stretch of stormy ocean where the waves regularly swell 20 feet (6 meters) or more and the winds blow at 30 mph (48 km/h) on a good day. Deep below these ...