Ten magnetic profiles across the mid-Atlantic ridge near 27°N show trends that are parallel to the ridge axis and symmetrical about the ridge axis. The configuration of magnetic bodies that could ...

More than two kilometres beneath the surface of the Pacific, off the coast of Oregon, an active underwater volcano has been ...

An international research team led by the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel set sail for the north-eastern Pacific last week on board the research vessel SONNE. The aim is to investigate ...

in Canada to northern California.Between 2021 and 2025, USGS has installed four monitoring sites on the seabed off the US Pacific coast at the southernmost extent of this zone.They are part of a wider ...

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. — A young killer whale that stranded on a beach in the Strait of Juan de Fuca freed itself Thursday after a coordinated response from Washington leaders. The Pacific Whale Watch ...

Challenges, breakthroughs and big ideas in the race to protect our planet. SEE MORE by Lisa Stiffler on Jun 11, 2026 at 12:36 pm June 12, 2026 at 9:22 am A geothermal energy demo device built by ...

Early Wednesday morning, June 3, several earthquakes struck the North Coast region. I didn’t feel them, but others did. A magnitude 5.7 struck far offshore of the California-Oregon border a little ...

The Juan de Fuca Plate is generated from the Juan de Fuca Ridge and is currently being subducted beneath the western side of the North American Plate at the Cascadia subduction zone. Credit: National ...

A massive fault is tearing the Juan de Fuca plate apart deep beneath the seafloor, and the quietest parts of the crack are the most unsettling. A scientific expedition off Vancouver Island captured ...

A South Florida man was sentenced to more than 26 years in federal prison after prosecutors said he shot a woman multiple times and forced a rideshare driver. How one young woman is helping change ...

A new look at the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath the coast of northern Oregon suggests this subducting slab is shallower than previously thought, with impacts on potential peak ground shaking ...

A series of earthquakes off the Washington state coast last weekend aren’t a threat to the region, and no tsunami warning was issued, seismologists said Sunday. More than 18 quakes were recorded in an ...