For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

For the first time, scientists have directly witnessed a subduction zone -- the place where one tectonic plate plunges beneath another -- in the midst ...

The piece is a work of enormous scope and forcefulness that reaches, by some pivot of a lens, an intimacy that surprises.

This month, we were visited. First contact went surprisingly well, but that’s not to say it was uneventful. I arrived with ...

In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...

One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on ...