An earthquake of magnitude 5.1 struck the southern East Pacific Rise region on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said, revising it down from its initially estimated 6.1 ...

The research that led to the discovery of the off-axis vent field along the East Pacific Rise was spearheaded by the McDermott ... west and east of this axial trough — between 9° 45-57'N latitude — ...

A community of marine life was found below the East Pacific Rise, a volcanically active ridge located where two tectonic plates meet on the floor, according to a paper published Tuesday in Nature ...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck the Southern East Pacific Rise region on Sunday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. Sept 4 (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck ...

We aimed to re-assess the connectivity of the annelid genus Hesiolyra distributed at hydrothermal vents along the East Pacific Rise (EPR). A previous study detected a major clade among five Hesiolyra ...

An eelpout swims by a tower of tubeworms at the Tica Vent, a site on the East Pacific Rise 8,200 feet deep. Animal life is flourishing underneath the seafloor according to a new study of deep-sea ...