The Pacific Plate (in blue) was formed at the junction of three tectonic plates — Farallon, Phoenix and Izanagi — that once sat under the massive ocean Panthalassa. | Credit: Fama Clamosa ...

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

Their research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, reveals that the Pacific Plate, which constitutes most of the floor of the Pacific Ocean, is being torn apart by large undersea faults.

A tsunami alert was briefly issued after multiple earthquakes, some dangerously strong, struck off the southeast coast of ...

The Philippines, long seen as a complex intersection of tectonic plates, ... At its peak, the plate measured around 15 million square miles—roughly a quarter of today’s Pacific Ocean.

Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins. As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet.

Tsunami threat is over after three earthquakes, one with a 7.4 magnitude, hit Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the capital of Kamchatka region in Russia.There were also seismic events with magnitudes ...

The Kamchatka Peninsula witnessed a series of earthquakes on July 20. Located at the intersection of tectonic plates, the ...

A tsunami alert has been issued after multiple earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia. The strongest of those quakes, ...