The strongest 17 earthquakes that have happened since 1900, all earthquakes with a magnitude of at least 8.3, are all linked to subduction zones. The animation concludes with a series of summary maps.

The animation really highlights the reach of ... recorded was a magnitude 9.5 in 1960 that also occurred in Chile's subduction zone. The resulting tsunami killed 61 people in Hawaii and 138 ...

When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward shore.

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.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed that an earthquake could erupt along the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault that stretches from Northern ...

"It provides a more fuller(sic) understanding of the fundamentals, the foundational understanding of how subduction zones work," said UW Assistant Professor Evan Solomon. Solomon and other ...

A modeling study suggests a slumbering subduction zone below the Gibraltar Strait is active and could break into the Atlantic Ocean in 20 million years' time, giving birth to an Atlantic "Ring of ...

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 ...

Currently, Earth's exterior ocean is the Pacific. The Pacific also has a rift in the middle, but it is bounded by subduction zones and thus will eventually close. Along its margins, earthquakes ...