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Deep Beneath The Pacific Ocean, Earth's Crust Is Tearing Itself Apart

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself ...
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What drives the continental deep subduction in the rifted continental margins? New constraints by the metamorphic rocks from the Sesia zone of the Western Alps

One of the main achievements in the Earth science is the development of plate tectonics theory in the 20 th century. It successfully explains the generation and extinction of oceanic plate from ...
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Experts Stunned as Earth’s Crust Begins to Collapse Beneath the Pacific, The Ocean Is Splitting Open

The discovery, made just off the coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean, shows that a section of the oceanic crust is ...
Oregonian

It’s been 323 years since the last Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. How prepared are you for the ‘Big One?’

It’s the 323rd anniversary of the last Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake. We spend a fair amount of time thinking about the ‘Big One’ (and the ‘Really Big One’) in the Pacific Northwest. Today is ...
KOIN 6

Cascadia Subduction Zone study reveals area at particular risk for massive quake

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A new study mapping the Cascadia Subduction Zone is giving scientists clues about the state of the fault line as the Pacific Northwest awaits a potentially catastrophic ...
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The Cascadia Subduction Zone looks a little different than researchers thought. Here's what that means for 'The Big One'

Newly-released research led by the University of Washington (UW) showed that a feature scientists hypothesized was present along the Cascadia Subduction Zone is missing in places. What does that mean ...
Live Science

Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from one oceanic plate to another

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...
KOIN 6

Earthquake is reminder to prepare for the Big One, experts warn

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Friday’s 4.4 earthquake in Linn County is an excellent reminder for Pacific Northwest residents to prepare for the potential 9.0 “megathrust” earthquake that could occur along ...
OPB

Cascadia earthquake tsunami threat may not be quite as bad as we thought (but it’s still bad)

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...
JSTOR Daily

High-Pressure Creep of Serpentine, Interseismic Deformation, and Initiation of Subduction

The supposed low viscosity of serpentine may strongly influence subduction-zone dynamics at all time scales, but until now its role could not be quantified because measurements relevant to ...
Newsweek

New California Earthquake Risk Raised by Scientists

A major earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could cause coastal land from to sink permanently, dramatically increasing the risk of flooding, according to a new study. The research, published ...