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Subduction Zone Science

Subduction Zone Science

A compilation of science, data, and activities relating to subduction zone science from across the USGS.

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Tectonic Features of World with Subduction Zones Highlighted
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Subduction Zone Science

Subduction Zone Science

A compilation of science, data, and activities relating to subduction zone science from across the USGS.

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Featured Films and Shorts
Image of researchers labeling a sediment core aboard a research vessel

Collecting Sediment Cores from the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Center News
Sunset with the jumbo piston core on its track system on the aft deck

Research Expedition Collects Cores, Geophysical Data from Cascadia Subduction Zone

Data Access
map of offshore Oregon and Washington with many criss-crossing lines

Cascadia Subduction Zone Database

Research
Colorfully shaded map of the seafloor showing the many unique canyons created by nearby rivers.

Cascadia Subduction Zone Database

publication
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Mass wasting along the Cascadia subduction zone: Implications for abyssal turbidite sources and the earthquake record

Photography
Image of researchers labeling a sediment core aboard a research vessel

Cover image for Cascadia Subduction Zone coring video

Data Visualization
Collage of vessel, glacier, mineral, and scientist testing substances in pipets.

Cascadia subduction zone database: compilation of published datasets relevant to Cascadia subduction zone earthquake hazards and tectonics

Featured Films and Shorts
Image of researchers labeling a sediment core aboard a research vessel

Collecting Sediment Cores from the Cascadia Subduction Zone (AD)

publication
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Volcano, earthquake, and tsunami hazards of the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Research
Pacific NW map with color contours

Pacific Northwest Hazards

Center News
Illustration looking at an angle along a section of coastline to show the underground features along an active fault zone.

Mass Wasting on the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Project
A map illustration of the seafloor off of a coastal area, that shows the features like submarine canyons and depth.

Cascadia Subduction Zone Marine Geohazards

Illustrations
Map illustration of the seafloor off the continental coastline shows all of the regions and tracklines of recent fieldwork.

Cascadia fieldwork map

Charts or Graphs
A map shows relief of a long stretch of continental margin with features on land and in the ocean labeled with lines and words.

Cascadia megathrust fault map

Photography
A vertical map taped to a whiteboard shows the length of the Cascadia Subduction Zone in bathymetric detail

A vertical map taped to a whiteboard shows the length of the Cascadia Subduction Zone in bathymetric detail

Data Release
Collage of images of an earthquake, scientists in flood with instruments, a volcano erupting, and seismic illustration.

Cascadia subduction zone database: compilation of published datasets relevant to Cascadia subduction zone earthquake hazards and tectonics (2022)

Illustrations
Colorfully shaded map of the seafloor showing the many unique canyons created by nearby rivers.

Topography and Bathymetry of Southern Cascadia

slideshow
A researcher aboard the Bold Horizon prepares to deploy a piston core over the Cascadia Subduction Zone, off the northern California coast.

Research expedition to map and collect cores along the Cascadia Subduction Zone off the northern California coast

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Cataloging tectonic tremor energy radiation in the Cascadia subduction zone

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Correlation of porosity variations and rheological transitions on the southern Cascadia megathrust

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Ensemble ShakeMaps for magnitude 9 earthquakes on the Cascadia Subduction Zone

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Imaging the next Cascadia earthquake: Optimal design for a seafloor GNSS- A network

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Interseismic lithospheric response of the southern end of the Cascadia Subduction Zone since the 1992 Cape Mendocino M 7.1 earthquake

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Minimal stratigraphic evidence for coseismic coastal subsidence during 2000 yr of megathrust earthquakes at the central Cascadia subduction zone

Illustrations
Illustration looking down on a coastal margin with ocean floor features shown off the coast.

Cascadia margin bathymetry

publication
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Dynamically triggered changes of plate interface coupling in Southern Cascadia

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Commentary: The role of geodetic algorithms for earthquake early warning in Cascadia

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21-40. Geomorphic approaches to characterizing megathrust processes across the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Project
Illustration model of the Cascadia Subduction Zone

Margin-wide geological and geophysical synthesis to understand the recurrence and hazards of great subduction zone earthquakes in Cascadia

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Cascadia Tsunami Deposit Database