New research shows that in minutes after the earthquake hits, coastal areas of California, Oregon and Washington could drop ...

The work relied on the seismometer network’s observations of more than 200 earthquakes ... that lies hidden below North America: remains of the Farallon plate. This was an oceanic plate that ...

As you read this, the North American continent’s underside is dribbling away into Earth’s molten mantle. And according to ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

A Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could cause long-lasting changes to Washington’s landscape, coastline and floodplain, a ...

So, first things first: what causes earthquakes in the first place? Basically, the Earth is a dynamic, moving being, whose ...

USHUAIA, Argentina - A strong offshore earthquake caused a tsunami scare in the far south of Chile and Argentina on Friday, ...

This process, described as “dripping,” occurs due to the lingering effects of an ancient tectonic plate ... North America. Full-waveform inversion analyzes seismic waves from earthquakes ...

Now, the study authors believe that the process is ongoing and is currently progressing to the north of ... occurrence of ...

Stout Research Center at Anza Borrego Desert State Park is believed to house fragments of the longest continuous record of ...