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Earth’s Crust Is Tearing Apart Off the Pacific Northwest — and That’s Not Necessarily Bad News

September 24, 2025 With unprecedented clarity, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone—the collision point where one tectonic plate dives beneath another—actively breaking apart. The discovery, reported in Science Advances, sheds new light on how Earth’s surface evolves and raises fresh questions about future earthquake risks in the Pacific Northwest.

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