Scientists are working hard to study a tectonic plate called the Juan de Fuca, which is located few hundred miles off the Pacific Northwest coast. In their study, they also discover that this tectonic plate is sliding under the American continent. This is obviously a bad news as it can generate huge earthquakes and accompany tsunamis.
As Phys.org cited, this tectonic plate area represents the single most noteworthy geophysical hazard to the continental United States; shakes focused here could enroll as several times more harming than even a major earthquake on the San Andreas Fault. Of course, researchers are keen on understanding as much as they can about the Juan de Fuca Plate.
The tectonic plate Juan de Fuca is born only 300 miles off the coast at a long scope of submerged volcanoes that creates new outside layer from the melt generated deep beneath. Some portion of the worldwide mid-sea ridge system that circles the planet, these locales creates 70 percent of the Earth's tectonic plate. Nonetheless, in light of the fact that the chains of volcanoes lie more than a mile underneath the ocean surface, researchers know shockingly very less information about them.
Science Daily reported that researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, conducted this research on the tectonic plate Juan de Fuca. They have used a novel measurement technique which has revealed that there is a process of energy loss going on at the mid-ocean ridge, at the spot, where Juan de Fuca is created. The data from the research has implied that the molten rock which has been found is even deeper than the scientists were thinking till now.
With the help of results of the research on tectonic plate Juan de Fuca, scientists now will be able to understand the process through which Earth's tectonic plate are created. The deep plumbing of volcanic systems will also be understood more clearly by the scientists. The results of the research work have been published in the journal Science Advances. This research was a part of Pacific Northwest project, which was actually a community experiment.
