Groundbreaking Discovery in Offshore Sediment Cores Two fault systems on North America's West Coast – the Cascadia subduction ...

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If the theory is proven correct, the consequences could be enormous, spelling a much more risky, explosive future.

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Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

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Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of Japan behaved so unusually as it lifted the seafloor and produced a tsunami ...