A 1,000-foot mega-tsunami could strike the U.S. West Coast — and experts say it’s not a matter of if, but when. A new study ...

Down in California, the San Andreas Fault marks the boundary where the North American and Pacific plates are sliding past ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process occurring deep beneath the Pacific Northwest. For the first time, a subduction ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...

Amidst the tsunami-prone Cascadia Subduction Zone lies Pythia’s Oasis, a hole in the ocean floor, which serves as a ...

Map highlighting the Atlantic subduction zones, the fully developed Lesser Antilles and Scotia arcs on the western side and the incipient Gibraltar arc on the eastern side. From Duarte et al., 2018.

This is KUOW's book club, and we’re wrapping up Kristen Millares Young's novel "Subduction." I'm your club guide, Katie Campbell. want to share the note I wrote as I finished the last few pages of ...

Scientists at Oregon State University say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West ...

These are two very different fault systems, but the sediment record suggests that in the past, at least three San Andreas ...

San Andreas, Cascadia faults could combine to produce back-to-back earthquake disasters, new research suggests – Nation and ...

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the country’s far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometres, today’s ...

The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off ...