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Fragment of lost tectonic plate discovered where San Andreas and Cascadia faults meet

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...
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This robot went 1,300 meters under the ocean and found something that shouldn’t exist

At a depth of 1,300 meters in the Pacific Ocean, scientists have filmed a geological contradiction that wasn’t supposed to exist. Near Papua New Guinea’s Lihir Island, a robotic submersible revealed ...
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Underwater volcano off Oregon rocked by thousands of daily quakes, poised for likely eruption by late 2026

Deep under the Pacific Ocean, more than 300 miles off the Oregon coast, lies a restless underwater volcano known as Axial Seamount. It is the most active submarine volcano in the northeast Pacific and ...
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The ‘blob’ is back — except this time it stretches across the entire North Pacific

A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching about 5,000 miles from the water around Japan to the West Coast of the United States. The ...