When the tectonic subduction zone beneath the Pacific Northwest moves, it does so in dramatic fashion. Not only is ground ...

Growing up in Southern California, earthquakes were a given. Before college, I thought Oregon was a “safe zone”, somewhere ...

Safe spaces, green spaces, third spaces, workspaces, outer space, time zones, temperate zones, altitudinal zones, subduction ...

At least 69 people have been killed and dozens injured after a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the central ...

Here are 10 takeaways from The Oregonian/OregonLive’s four-part series on school seismic safety in the Portland area.

According to USGS data, the quake occurred at 21:37 (UTC) with its epicentre located about 29 kilometres west of El Hoyo, a town in northern Argentina. The tremor originated at a depth of around 571 ...

Experts issued a reminder about the extremely high potential for Megathrust earthquakes in the Mentawai Siberut and Sunda ...

Our planet is a place of beauty and wonder, but also of grave potential danger and chaos. Some dangers don’t […] ...

The Earth is full of riches. Once people discovered the importance of metals, they quickly found out where to get them from. The first mined metal may have been copper. When mixed with tin, this ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ...