Learn how subduction zones form, drive massive earthquakes, create volcanoes, and shape Earth’s surface through powerful tectonic processes.

Deep beneath central China, geologists have mapped a 400 mile long arc of extinct volcanoes that no longer pierce the surface ...

The percentage of water in arc volcanoes, which form above subduction zones, may be far more than many previous studies have calculated. This increased amount of water has broad implications for ...

The SZ4D Implementation Plan details how the scientific community plans to make major advances in understanding subduction zone hazards. Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate slides beneath ...

As explosive eruptions and frequent quakes capture global attention, the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' raises questions over where ...

Subduction zone volcanoes are notoriously dangerous and unpredictable. But did they behave differently when they were young? Here, pre-eruptive magmatic processes and timescales of a rare, young ...

The United States leads the globe with 165 Holocene volcanoes, followed by Japan and Russia. These nations, situated along ...