Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

A massive earthquake off the Pacific Northwest coast is not a distant abstraction but a well-defined geological threat. Along ...

Until the massacre at Bondi Beach, Anthony Albanese’s Labor government ended the year bestriding the federal landscape: a huge lower house majority, the Coalition reduced to its lowest primary vote ...

New research reveals the Indian tectonic plate beneath the Himalayas is not a solid slab but is warping and tearing. This internal breaking and delamination, particularly in the eastern Himalayas, ...

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...

"It's tearin' up my heart when I'm with you, but when we are apart, I feel it, too." Sure, it's a great opener to a pop song, but it also briefly describes what's happening to Africa. The continent is ...

Recent lab measurements show that olivine remains surprisingly transparent to infrared radiation under mantle conditions, causing rapid radiative heating of subducting slabs and restricting deep-water ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the surface of our planet. These mantle upwellings, sometimes referred to as mantle ...