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

Japan is bolstering its earthquake defenses following increased seismic activity near the Tokara Islands, raising concerns ...

Researchers mapped a pulsing mantle plume under Afar that channels molten rock upward, stretching Africa’s crust until it ...

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

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.

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, ...

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 ...

"This study clearly demonstrates horizontal plate movements before 3 billion years ago," study co-author Timothy Kusky, director of the Center for Global Tectonics at the China University 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 ...