Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

Excessive underground water extraction has led to land subsidence, amplifying the risk of destructive earthquakes ...

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.

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

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

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, ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...