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

A REMOTE island chain has been rocked by more than 900 terrifying earthquakes in two weeks – forcing its residents to stay up ...

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

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

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.

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...