Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Oceanic transform faults have historically been thought of as simple, predictable features. They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent ...

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust. Rather, two plates move against each other, ... The San Andreas Fault is undoubtedly the most famous transform boundary in the world.

Transform faults, where tectonic plates move past each other, are one of three main plate boundaries on Earth and about 48,000 km in length globally, with the others being the global mid-ocean ...

Oceanography, Vol. 27, No. 2, SPECIAL ISSUE ON Undersea Natural Hazards (JUNE 2014), pp. 118-131 (14 pages) ABSTRACTContinental transform boundaries cross heavily populated regions and are associated ...

Crustal brines at an oceanic transform fault New research explores geological processes along plate boundaries Date: April 11, 2025 Source: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution ...

7.1 Earthquake Strikes Mid-Atlantic On Major Transform Fault. ... The quake occurred on or near a transform fault that forms part of the North America / Eurasia plate boundary, ...

Lithospheric-scale transform faults play an important role in the dynamics of global plate motion. Near-surface deformation fields for such faults are relatively well documented by satellite ...

The Blanco Transform Fault Zone off Oregon's coast is famously active, and it has not disappointed in the past 24 hours, generating at least 50 earthquakes, including two at a 5.8 magnitude. That ...

Unlike the San Jacinto fault, which splays off of the San Andreas, the northern end of the Elsinore fault is not as clear. It begins somewhere in the Chino Hills area and extends over 100 miles to ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...

A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The NSF funded work reveals ...