A plume of molten rock rising from the depths of the Earth in heartbeat-like pulses is slowly tearing Africa apart—and will ...

Scientists are keeping a close watch on the chances of a megathrust earthquake happening soon. These are the strongest types ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it cracks and an ocean basin begins.

Destruction of evidence. Only Earth has jigsaw-like tectonic plates that crash together and pull apart like bumper cars. The other rocky planets in the solar system have a single, ...

They are natural laboratories in which the mechanisms that power plate tectonics, the formation and destruction of continents, and the history of Earth’s surface can be studied.

A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck Pakistan's Balochistan province, injuring three people and causing damage to several houses ...

Destruction of evidence. Only Earth has jigsaw-like tectonic plates that crash together and pull apart like bumper cars. The other rocky planets in the solar system have a single, ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

The circular motion at the top of the mantle drags Earth’s tectonic plates along at a few ... tubes—appear in the fossil record within 100 million years of Rodinia’s destruction.

A 5.2 magnitude earthquake struck Pakistan early Sunday, deep beneath the surface at 150 km, with no immediate reports of ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere. Featured.

Research indicates the plates in the area are being pushed apart in part by magma rising up from deep in the Earth, creating a measurable bulge and cracks where the rocks are separating. Other factors ...