This major finding was shared at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco and gives us a whole new perspective ... dimensional image of how tectonic plates interact, scientists ...

We can’t solve problems as dire as climate change and biodiversity loss with the same kind of thinking that got us into ...

Even the oldest and most stable of lithospheric structures can’t withstand geologic machinations deep within the Earth.

The US-led global order as we have known it is gone. As the tectonic plates of geopolitics continue to shift beneath us, the challenge for Europe is to keep its institutions alive and prevent the ...

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck southern California near Julian, a town close to the US-Mexico border, originating at a depth of eight miles. The quake, followed by aftershocks, caused no ...

a seismologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS). Myanmar’s location between two tectonic plates – the India and Eurasia plates – places it at particular risk of earthquakes. The boundary ...

Learn how a computer simulation demonstrates that tectonic activity may be less slow and steady than previously thought.

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

According to the US Geological Survey (USGS), likely losses ... In this region, the Indian and Sunda tectonic plates slide past each other at a speed of 49mm per year. When those plates catch ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

Plate tectonics may have worked in fits and starts ... geological processes," says Professor Turner. "It also gives us a new way to think about how continents might form on other rocky planets ...

Tremors were felt in parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab — including Peshawar, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Lahore — for the ...