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 ...

Scientists have now identified a strange slice of Earth deep below the Pacific that may explain ... world's fastest spreading ocean ridge – the East Pacific Rise. Using seismic data, University ...

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 ...

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 ...