Amit Sharma “To understand the Himalayas is to understand the pulse of the Earth itself” a famous quote by the Indian ...

This continental slope plunges into depths sunlight cannot reach, through the aphotic zone all the way to ... collide in what are known as convergent plate boundaries. Trenches are where half ...

His cautionary statement comes shortly after reports from specialized media outlets about a day filled with intense seismic activity near the 19° North subduction zone ... creating convergent ...

An area in the Pacific Northwest lies on a 'subduction' zone where a tectonic plate slides ... the region in the near future. 'This tectonic boundary experienced a great earthquake [magnitude ...

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

researchers expect that water isn't distributed evenly throughout the zone. Intraplate volcanism, or volcanism occurring away from plate boundaries, can provide clues about which areas of the MTZ are ...

Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

A subduction fault is when two plates have different ... that formed the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington and Oregon! A convergent fault is when two plates push into one another, they create ...