A University of Michigan study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really ...

Along this fraught stretch, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, two pieces of the Earth’s crust slide against each other, building up stresses capable of unleashing a catastrophic 9.0-magnitude ...

The Earth is made up of different layers ... Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and ...

In a recent paper published in National Science Review, a jointed team of scholars from China and UK has made significant ...

This is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone. According to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources ... Ruptures ...