Underwater eruptions may seem distant to folks on land, but they have global significance. The 2022 Hunga Tonga event, for ...

THE GEOLOGY OF the Olympic Peninsula offers a fascinating glimpse into the massive forces of nature that shaped this land into one of the most complicated rock piles in the world.

This volcano is the highlight of a chain of underwater mountains known as the Juan de Fuca Ridge (center of above image).

In the depths of the Pacific Ocean, 470 kilometers off the Oregon coast, a drama is unfolding. Axial Seamount, one of the ...

This volcano is the highlight of a chain of underwater mountains known as the Juan de Fuca Ridge (center of ... advance the study of volcanoes and plate tectonics.

Last week, about 60 miles off the coast near Ferndale, California, the tectonic ... lifting the top plate up. In the case of “the really big one,” that would mean the Juan de Fuca plate ...

There are fears that sooner or later, the entire Pacific coast of northern California, Oregon and Washington is due to suffer ...

Thus, there are a lot of different types of tectonic possibilities ... fault that allowed the Juan de Fuca/Gorda plates to move eastward relative to the Pacific plate. Crisis averted.

Loma Prieta has become an event of the distant past, while future tectonic disasters are sorely overlooked ... in the next 50 years as pressure continues to build under the Juan de Fuca Plate. Yet ...

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