Iran's folded rocks are a colorful formation that is part of the Greater Caucasus mountains, which formed when the Eurasian ...

A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck Nepal on Tuesday, as reported by the National Center for Seismology. The earthquake, occurring at a depth of 25km, highlights Nepal's vulnerability as the 11th most ...

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines. A subduction fault is when two plates have different densities.

Western Nepal was struck by two moderate earthquakes in quick succession on Friday evening, with the strongest registering a magnitude of 5.5, according to the country’s National Earthquake Monitoring ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Tsunamis can travel thousands of kilometres across the ocean after an earthquake, volcanic eruption, or landslide ...

It is located on a convergent boundary, where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide. This collision causes stress and strain to build up in the crust, which is eventually released in the ...

A team presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The work reveals unexpected brine deposits beneath the seafloor near the fault, which could ...