Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest of the ... of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates ...

Axial Seamount off Oregon's coast is the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest, about 300 miles offshore and just ...

An earthquake struck near Snoqualmie Monday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The 3.5 ...

The Pacific Northwest is at risk for a mega-earthquake ... A subduction zone is where tectonic plates slide on top of each other. "We have the potential for earthquakes and tsunamis as large ...

The Pacific and Australian plates collide and ... influence on deformation in the region. Where the Earth's tectonic plates meet, they interact in complex geological, geochemical and geophysical ...

Rujm el-Hiri, dubbed the “Stonehenge of the East” with a 492-foot diameter, has baffled experts since it was discovered in 1968. A new study shows that the tectonic plates near the Sea of Galilee ...

Unlike the Pacific Northwest’s steep-sloped Cascade volcanoes ... because it’s located on the ridge of two different tectonic plates and is too far away from the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants ... One example of these areas is in the western Pacific, where the presence of a submerged plate should be impossible ...

Unlike the Pacific Northwest’s steep-sloped Cascade volcanoes ... because it’s located on the ridge of two different tectonic plates and is too far away from the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...