The drilling expedition—officially known as the Tracking Tsunamigenic Slip Across the Japan Trench (JTRACK ... and also look at the incoming plate before it subducts." In September, a team ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

The trench is where the Philippine Sea oceanic tectonic plate is "subducting" -- or slowly slipping -- underneath the continental plate that Japan sits on top of. The plates become stuck as they ...

the southwest coast of Japan is expected to be hit by a magnitude 8–9 earthquake and tsunami originating in the Nankai Trough, a seafloor depression where the Philippine Sea Plate is subducting.

was subducted and accreted to southern Alaska between 22 million and 1 million years ago. Subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate creating the Aleutian trench and volcanic ...