The East Pacific Rise This broad, 8,000-mile-long bulge in the crust of the earth differs in many ways from the rest of the ocean bottom. It may be the result of huge convection currents in the ...

The newly discovered vents are located on the East Pacific Rise (EPR) near 10°N latitude, a part of the globe-spanning mid-ocean ridge volcanic mountain chain, where two tectonic plates are ...

A thin stretch of the eastern Pacific Ocean has been getting colder for the past 30 years, defying the broad global trend and baffling scientists. The surprising and rapid rise in ocean ...

The Pacific paradise, located between Australia ... and they worry about it getting worse as sea levels rise.” The encroaching sea brings with it a host of problems. The country’s limited ...

The prehistoric seafloor was found at the East Pacific Rise, a tectonic boundary on the floor of the southeastern Pacific Ocean. 'This thickened area is like a fossilized fingerprint of an ancient ...

East Asia and Pacific also bears the brunt of 70% of the world’s natural disasters, which have affected more than 1.6 billion people in the region since 2000. Pacific Island countries, where rising ...