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Gov. Tina Kotek has proclaimed February Tsunami and Earthquake Awareness Month in Oregon. In the past, Oregon has suffered ...

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Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Beneath California's Sierra Nevada, evidence suggests the lithosphere is undergoing foundering, where the denser lower lithosphere detaches and sinks into the mantle ...

Credit: Dicklyon/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere denser than the ...