Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

Convergent plate margins associated with lithospheric subduction often exhibit pronounced along-strike curvature, shaped by the interplay of topography, sediment transport, plate interface ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

Non-volcanic tremor ramp up precedes slow slip in Cascadia by about a day, indicating that brittle-creeping process ...

"The main takeaway is that the subduction zone plate boundary contains much more foliated, damaged rocks than what we thought about before at this kilometer scale, which is relevant to earthquake ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing a 9.0 magnitude earthquake, last produced a major quake in 1700. The fault goes an average of 535 years between major quakes, according to the ...

One common hypothesis is that the LLVPs are made up of oceanic crust that was pushed into the mantle at subduction zones. This crustal material was then stirred through the mantle over millions of ...

The public will soon get a chance to review possible new boundaries for local schools. Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools is in the middle of a two-year effort to redraw attendance zones ...

When plates come together at convergent boundaries, they often slide under each other, which is called subduction. All of these movements can cause earthquakes. Earthquakes can build mountains or ...