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 Cascadia Subduction Zone is capable of generating powerful earthquakes. The study found compact sediments along the coast of Washington and northern Oregon, a result that suggests that the ...

Subduction zones are what cause the oceans to close, by pulling their ocean floor back into the mantle, bringing the continents together.' The 10-mile Gibraltar Strait that separates Spain and ...