A massive underwater volcano located just 300 miles off the Oregon coast is showing signs of an imminent eruption, scientists ...

SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — An earthquake struck near Snoqualmie Monday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

The Juan de Fuca and Pacific plates are pulling apart ... and a wide range of bacteria. “Underwater earthquakes can not only topple existing sulfide towers but also alter the way fluids travel ...

Axial saw hundreds, then thousands of earthquakes every day in the months ... and despite the volcano’s location on the Juan de Fuca Ridge, it poses no danger of triggering the “Big One ...

1. Figure 1: Map of the northern Cascadia subduction zone showing the distribution of earthquakes in the subducting Juan de Fuca plate and the locations of seismic cross-sections. Green dashed line ...

Scientists discovered why earthquakes along mid-ocean ridges ... better known by the Spanish transcription of his name, Juan de Fuca (born 1536 on the Ionian island of Kefallonia; died there ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic ... comes to shaping the Earth. The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the ...

The Ring of Fire is home to 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its earthquakes ... North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca, Antarctic, Indian, Australian, Philippine, and ...

The Axial Seamount is not expected to threaten human population centres but it could help scientists forecast the eruption of ...

Earthquakes commonly occur in the region as the Pacific plate and the Juan de Fuca/Gorda plate cause north-south compression, according to the USGS. A 6.4-magnitude earthquake on Dec. 20 ...

Japan’s position along the “Ring of Fire”, a string of hundreds of volcanoes and earthquake sites in the Pacific Ocean, makes it vulnerable to frequent earthquakes. Here is how.

The Axial Seamount volcano is located about 300 miles west of Astoria along the Juan de Fuca Ridge — and this ... with increasing numbers of tiny earthquakes signaling magma movement beneath ...