Plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth’s crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought—and may be a big ...

Earthquakes are most common along fault lines, which are fractures that allow the plates to move. Earthquakes occur when two ...

State and local officials were working to assess the full scope of the damage, but early reports appeared to show that the ...

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A huge crack has appeared in Africa and experts have said that it will lead to the world gaining another ocean.

"The Moho is a really interesting boundary for seismologists because it tells us what's happening within and between tectonic plates at depth," says Atterholt, who is now a postdoctoral fellow at ...

It is where three tectonic plates meet and the Northwest’s Cascadia subduction zone and California’s San Andreas Fault system ...

More than 200 aftershocks have been reported since a 7.0 earthquake struck off the coast of Northern California.

Assad’s regime in Damascus is a moment of historic importance for the Middle East, in which the shifting of tectonic plates ...

A 7.0-magnitude earthquake off the California coast briefly triggered a tsunami warning for parts of Northern California and ...

He opts for an adventurous break – staying at the remote Highland Base at Kerlingarfjöll, snorkelling in between tectonic plates and eating bread cooked inside the earth using geothermal energy.