Confirming the megathrust fault line off Haida Gwaii offers a path to improve tsunami modelling in a zone that has produced ...

Towering walls of water traveling at the speed of a jetliner, with coastal communities from Japan and Hawaii to South America ...

Tectonic Plates Can ‘Infect’ One Another with Earth-Shaking Subduction Zones Evidence from Earth’s deep past suggests dramatic subduction zones can spread like a contagion Evan Howell ...

This region is globally recognised for seismic activity because it lies atop a major tectonic boundary, where the Indian ...

Geologists unpack why the magnitude 8.8 temblor — the sixth largest ever recorded — fomented waves that reached Japan and Hawaii but caused little damage.

The research, recently published in the prestigious journal Science Advances, produced the most detailed picture researchers have yet of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, an area spanning more than ...

From ancient legends to modern-day coastal warnings, tsunamis have long captured human fear and fascination. But what really ...

The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped geological zone along the edges of the Pacific Ocean. It is prone to mega earthquakes ...