An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged Earth's richest deposits of copper, a ...

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

A study in Geology presents evidence that subduction can spread like a contagion, jumping from one oceanic plate to another—a hypothesis previously difficult to prove.

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

If subduction spreads this way, could the Atlantic Ocean ’s relatively quiet plate margins be next? The massive 1755 Lisbon earthquake hints at early subduction invasion there.

Will Japans Baba Vangas earthquake and tsunami prediction come true? Scientists have detected small tremors that are ...