The discovery, made just off the coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean, shows that a section of the oceanic crust is slowly breaking apart beneath the North American Plate. Using seismic data ...
The Pacific Northwest coast has been living under the shadow of the 620-mile-long Cascadia Subduction Zone, where the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate is steadily pushing under the North American plate.
Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth's crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, new analysis suggests. A careful analysis of the complex boundary where ...
The massive earthquake that sent sea water as high as 16 feet crashing into Russia's Kuril Islands was the result of a dramatic underground collision between Earth's tectonic plates. India Today ...