The discovery, made just off the coast of Vancouver Island in the Pacific Ocean, shows that a section of the oceanic crust is ...

A map showing where the epicenter of the magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred on Sept. 18, 2025. (USGS) A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off Russia's coast on Thursday, prompting a tsunami risk in the ...

FOR years, climate models have predicted that as greenhouse gas emissions rise, ocean waters will warm. For the most part, they have been correct. Yet in a patch of the Pacific Ocean, the opposite is ...

As the seasons change in the northern hemisphere, things are slowly cooling down. That is, they are on land. In the northern Pacific Ocean, however, scientists are monitoring a marine heatwave – an ...

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The Pacific is the largest and the deepest ocean on our planet, stretching over 60 million square miles; that's close to 30% of Earth's entire surface area. The ocean connects the continents of North ...

A leak in the Pacific Ocean’s floor has scientists concerned it could fuel “the big one,” a magnitude-9.0 earthquake that would be one of the strongest earthquakes the U.S. has ever seen, and has been ...

A marine heat wave spanning much of the North Pacific Ocean is already influencing the weather in North America and is poised to make its mark on winter. The unusually warm ocean water, coined “the ...