2 min read The Ring of Fire is a roughly 25,000-mile chain of volcanoes and seismically active sites that outline the Pacific Ocean ... epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest ... These convergent boundaries also occur where a plate of ocean dives, in a process called ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...