In 2023, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) completed a 3-week field operation in Lake Chelan, Washington, the third deepest lake in the conterminous United States, to acquire sediment cores, high-reso...

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has initiated descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Major Facility. This plan includes the removal of all in-water infrastructure from the Ir...

A new research publication, led by the USGS Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center, used MBARI’s advanced technology to map the distribution of deposits left on the abyssal seafloor after an earthq...

Societal Issue: Uncertainty related to rupture extent, slip distribution, and recurrence of past subduction megathrust earthquakes in the Pacific Northwest (northern CA, OR, WA, and southern BC) leads...

Lower slope failures produce abyssal turbidites that record shaking and coseismic deformation during megathrust earthquakes.

In summer 2025, a research team led by the USGS worked with the NOAA ship Rainier to map a large swath of seafloor offshore of Kodiak Island, Alaska, along the Alaska-Aleutian Trench.

YouTube video by Alaska Earthquake Center

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