The Tintina fault has triggered many more earthquakes than was thought — and a build-up of strain poses a hazard.

Intraplate tectonic settings, located far from active plate margins, have historically been considered stable. However, infrequent but destructive ...

Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Article Title Geochronology and geochemistry of mafic rocks in the Wutai area, North China: constraints on the latest Neoarchean–Paleoproterozoic tectonic setting of the Trans-North China Orogen ...

Tectonic plates are massive slabs of Earth's lithosphere that float atop the semi-fluid mantle, constantly shifting and reshaping our planet. These powerful geological forces are behind ...

Deep Pulses Beneath Africa Are Breaking the Continent Apart, Creating a New Ocean Learn more about the pounding plume of molten rock that’s beneath Ethiopia, forcing its three tectonic plates to ...

“The work shows that deep mantle upwellings can flow beneath the base of tectonic plates and help to focus volcanic activity to where the tectonic plate is thinnest. Follow on research includes ...

According to a new study by the American Geophysical Union, the Indian tectonic plate has been sliding northwards for the last 60 million years, and this collision gave birth to mountain ranges ...

There, the tectonic plates moved at around 21 millimetres per year before two major earthquakes struck — one of magnitude 8.0 in 1934 and another of 7.8 in 2015.

You Can Watch 1.8 Billion Years Of Earth's Tectonic Plates Shifting In This 1-Minute Video Hundreds of thousands of years ago, Earth was like another world.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...