The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest of the ... of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates ...

Unlike the Pacific Northwest’s steep-sloped Cascade volcanoes ... because it’s located on the ridge of two different tectonic plates and is too far away from the Cascadia Subduction Zone ...

The good news is that because the top of the volcano is still 4,500 feet below the ocean’s surface, it poses no danger to ...

The Pacific Northwest is at risk for a mega-earthquake ... A subduction zone is where tectonic plates slide on top of each other. "We have the potential for earthquakes and tsunamis as large ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca ...

Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive basin environments ... The Cascade Mountains of the US Pacific Northwest sit in a climate zone with massive amounts of rain and rapid weathering, ...

which—according to our current understanding of the plate tectonic cycle—are all too far from any subduction zone. The results of the study were published in the journal Scientific Reports. One ...