Subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate creating the Aleutian trench and volcanic island arc (Credit: Alaska Volcano Observatory). Click image for a larger view.

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

Off the coast of Hawke’s Bay, a giant slumbers – but could wake at any time. The Hikurangi Subduction Zone is where the ...

Mount Spurr is a prominent feature within the Aleutian volcanic arc, an area created by the subduction of the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate. This geological phenomenon leads to ...

An area in the Pacific Northwest lies on a 'subduction' zone where a tectonic plate slides underneath the North American plate. Subduction zones produce the world's largest earthquakes.

Geologists attribute the Laramide Orogeny to the subduction of an oceanic plate, specifically the Farallon Plate, beneath the North American Plate. This subduction began roughly 160 million years ...

The Pacific and Australian plates collide ... seems to be a key factor in the transformation of the plate boundary into a subduction zone. As shown by Wannamaker and colleagues, the fluids ...

As the Atlantic has grown, the Pacific has shrunk ... "Plates are very strong and a subduction zone would require a plate to break and bend," Newsweek said. "However, subduction zones that ...

A new paper warns that an Atlantic Ring of Fire could form in the next 20 million years as new subduction zones invade the ...

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Tonga overnight triggered a tsunami warning and evacuations. No damage has been reported and ...