There is a 70-80% chance that the Nankai Trough Megathrust Earthquake will occur in the next 30 years. It is predicted to cause more extensive damage than the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and ...

By modeling dehydration-driven fluid pressure, a new study links deep fluids to where megathrust earthquakes end and slow slip begins.

The world's most powerful earthquakes happen along subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath the other. When these plates become stuck together, stress builds in the crust of the Earth ...

Some of the inner workings of Earth's subduction zones and their 'megathrust' faults have been revealed by researchers who calculated the frictional strength of subduction zone faults worldwide, and ...

Megathrust earthquakes are the most powerful type of earthquake, occurring at subduction zones -- where one tectonic plate is pushed beneath another. By contrast, slow slip events (SSEs) release ...

When the tectonic subduction zone beneath the Pacific Northwest moves, it does so in dramatic fashion. Not only is ground shaking from a magnitude 9+ earthquake incredibly destructive, the event ...

“We need to think Japan 2011 basically, because if our whole plate boundary ruptured it would be a magnitude-9 earthquake,” geologist Ursula Cochran of the Earth and geoscience research company GNS ...

The analysis by Erin Wirth and Arthur Frankel of the U.S. Geological Survey indicates that a rupture extending to just offshore for most of the Pacific Northwest could cause the pattern of coastal ...

The nightmare of the Great East Japan Earthquake, which caused over 20,000 deaths and missing persons in Japan, has resurfaced. The Japan Meteorological Agency announced at 2 a.m. on the 9th the ...