An undersea volcano off Oregon’s coast will likely erupt in 2025, scientists say. Known as Axial Seamount, it’s the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest – though one most people haven’t heard ...

Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...

Scientists predict the Pacific Ocean will vanish in 200 million years, forming a new supercontinent named Amasia and ...

This KS2 download contains a detailed medium-term plan about tectonic plates plus all the resources you need to teach it. When we think of natural disasters, we think of bright orange eruptions of ...

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Map showing Port Vila ... Vanuatu's location on a subduction zone—where the Indo-Australian Plate slides beneath the Pacific Plate—makes earthquakes exceeding magnitude 6 not uncommon.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck off Vanuatu killed at least 14 people, injured hundreds more and caused widespread damage across the South Pacific island ...

He often would travel out of state for the sake of better learning. Today, after earning his PGA stripes, he is the owner and founder of Pacific Northwest Golf Academy in Issaquah and a new location ...

This week GNS released a high resolution update to the national Active Faults Database, detailing where the active faults are across the motu to support planning and engineering.

The United States has deployed the aircraft carrier Carl Vinson to the Philippine Sea, a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, as China conducted military exercises near Taiwan earlier this week.

Last week, about 60 miles off the coast near Ferndale, California, the tectonic plates shifted under the Pacific Ocean, sending seismic waves through the ocean floor that radiated onto land and ...

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