The highest peak here is more than 7,500 feet tall. Seamounts generally form when volcanic mountains rise up from the seafloor but fail to reach the surface (those that break the surface become ...

Such an underwater earthquake could trigger tsunamis more ... When tectonic plates are relatively rough, and feature oceanic faults and seamounts, pieces of the plate could be eroded and may ...

This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from ... s new type of radar technology has allowed it to detect seamounts less than half the size of those previously mapped ...

The spatial coincidence of these geometrical highs, interpreted to represent subducted seamounts chains, with boundaries of the region’s great earthquake ruptures indicates that the megathrust ...

They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys ... creating mountains, earthquakes, and volcanoes. In some areas, the plates move away from each other, forming new bits of crust, as ...