No one is at their best when they are dehydrated and that goes for tectonic plates too. Researchers using a thermomechanical model of the Alaska subduction zone indicates that plate dehydration is at ...

Not all earthquake faults behave the same. Some stick and snap, causing earthquakes. Others move slowly over time. For years, the leading explanation for slow-moving faults has been that high-pressure ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska averages 40,000 earthquakes per year, with more large quakes than the other 49 states combined, and America's shakiest state is about to have its ground examined like ...

Boulder, CO, USA – Earthquake-prone southern Alaska, where Earth's Pacific plate moves northward at a rate of about two inches per year and is being subducted beneath the North American plate, is ...

GEOSPHERE has added a new themed issue to its roster: "Neogene tectonics and climate-tectonic interactions in the southern Alaskan orogeny." Interest in Alaskan tectonics has varied over time, ...

Sixty years ago, the largest earthquake in U.S. history shocked geologists. It’s still driving scientific discoveries today Christian Elliott The earthquake on March 27, 1964, dropped Anchorage’s ...