(NewsNation) — Discovering new species of plants or animals is one of the reasons people become scientists, but 21 scientists who explored a very deep ocean trough found an even bigger thrill ...

"It looks like we have a great haul of new, undiscovered species," researcher Alex Rogers said. "We will be north of 100 new ...

Q: What is the Nankai Trough Earthquake? A: The Nankai Trough is an ocean-floor trench that runs along the Pacific coast from the Tokai to Kyushu regions. This area has a history of being struck ...

However, in the summer, warmer water comes up onto the continental shelf from the open ocean and travels toward the ice shelf through a channel called the Filchner Trough, according to the study.

Nankai Trough is an ocean-floor trench that runs along Japan's Pacific coast where the Eurasian and Philippine Sea tectonic plates meet. Japan, a quake-prone nation, has long feared a magnitude 8 to 9 ...

A Nankai Trough megaquake is expected to strike along the boundary between a continental plate and an oceanic plate. But the Jan. 22 temblor occurred inside the oceanic plate, which lies at a ...

The trench is where the Philippine Sea oceanic tectonic plate is "subducting ... Over the past 1,400 years, megaquakes in the Nankai Trough have occurred every 100 to 200 years, according ...