SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — An earthquake struck near Snoqualmie Monday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

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

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

an underwater mountain range wedged between two separating tectonic plates: the Juan de Fuca Plate and the Pacific Plate. Such areas teem with marine life, including octopuses, bacteria ...

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.

The Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of numerous tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean ... which all encircle the large Pacific Plate, according ...

The study’s findings also have broader implications for plate tectonics and crust formation. Axial Seamount lies at the intersection of the Juan de Fuca Ridge and the Cobb Hotspot, where magma ...

It is 30 miles from what’s called the Mendocino triple junction, the place where three tectonic plates – the Pacific, the North America and the Juan de Fuca – meet. It marks the end of the ...

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