A cluster of seismic events near the Puerto Rico Trench in late March 2026 has drawn attention from federal monitoring ...

The Japan Trench is located on the "Pacific Ring of Fire," a region of special interest in earthquake and deep-water research. "It is here that oceanic plates bend, form ultra-deep-water trenches and ...

Improving tsunami hazard assessments depends on understanding what happens at the moment an earthquake ruptures beneath the ...

I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our target was an east-to-west transect starting near Guam, over the Challenger ...

The Mariana Trench has long captured the public's imagination. Here are some facts about one of the Earth's great wonders. Q. What is the Mariana Trench? The trench is the deepest place on Earth, ...

Challenger Deep, Earth's deepest point, lies in the Mariana Trench. This extreme environment features crushing pressure and ...