This area, called the Cascadia Subduction Zone, hosts a megathrust fault ... they finally lurch against each other. The result: the world's greatest earthquakes, shaking both seabed and land ...

The researchers mapped fault during a 41-day research trip in which a vessel trailed miles-long cable along the fault to listen to the seafloor and map an image of the subduction zone. Study ...

A subduction zone is created where two plates converge, with one sinking into the mantle. Dynamics along the plate interface create earthquakes, magma generated above the sinking slab leads to ...

Schematic figure of the subduction zone underneath the Kanto region (left) in Japan and the spatial distribution of magnitude 2 to 6 earthquakes on the subduction zone at 60 to 70 kilometers below ...