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Geologists Discover Mysterious Ancient Tectonic Plates Beneath the Pacific That Shouldn’t Be There
Hidden deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, researchers have uncovered anomalies in the Earth’s mantle that defy existing ...
The world’s huge new supercontinent that will emerge when the Pacific Ocean disappears
Scientists predict the Pacific Ocean will vanish in 200 million years, forming a new supercontinent named Amasia and ...
Sunken worlds under the Pacific? High-res models reveal workings of Earth's mantle
Geophysicists at ETH Zurich are using models of the lower mantle to identify areas where earthquake waves behave differently ...
Scientists predict the Pacific Northwest’s most active (undersea) volcano will erupt this year
An undersea volcano off the Oregon coast will likely erupt in 2025 and scientists can use the lessons learned from ...
A Gigantic Wave in The Pacific Ocean Was The Most Extreme 'Rogue Wave' on Record
For centuries, rogue waves were considered nothing but nautical folklore. It wasn't until 1995 that myth became fact. On the first day of the new year, a nearly 26-meter-high wave (85 feet) suddenly ...
Rare summer La Niña could be forming in Pacific, raising risk of wet weather start to 2025
The current edition of La Niña is not playing by the rule book — for only the second time in 75 years its onset has arrived ...
The incredible garbage island three times the size of France floating in the Pacific
A garbage island made of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic spread across nearly 618,000 square miles and weighing 100,000 tonnes ...
Beej Chaney, co-founder of Minneapolis punk band The Suburbs, drowns in California
Chaney was a singer and guitarist for The Suburbs from 1977 to 2014, with Chaney originally forming the band with keyboardist ...