"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

Researchers at the University of Göttingen discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate beneath the Arabian and Eurasian ...

The towering Himalayas, Earth's most iconic mountain range, continue to astonish scientists. Beneath their majestic peaks, the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ... a major fracture in the ...

During subduction, a tectonic plate shifts beneath another one, forcing it from the Earth’s surface down as far as ... Such a potentially major seismological revision reverberates far beyond ...

As two of Earth’s great tectonic plates crash together ... to evolve in the future due to the movement of tectonic plates. As a result, the major threat to the Mediterranean Sea is the gradual ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

According to this theory, the lithosphere (the Earth's rigid outer layer) is divided into several tectonic plates that float and move slowly on the viscous mantle. These movements are responsible for ...