Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks of Earth's crust. This movement may be ...

A. 2.2-magnitude earthquake shook just north of Wayne County, in Lake Ontario, on Wednesday night. The earthquake hit around ...

Rolling elevation on the East Coast, like the Appalachian Mountains, are a record of past seismic activity. Think of the way ...

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Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

A subduction zone near Cascadia is unraveling piece by piece. The process offers a rare glimpse into how tectonic plates die ...

In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), residents also felt the quake in Charsadda, Risalpur, Nowshera, Rustam, Buner and nearby towns.

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in ...

Greenland is being twisted, compressed, and stretched. This happens due to plate tectonics and movements in the bedrock, ...

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National Association of Evangelicals President Walter Kim has laid out the major challenges that he believes the modern ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that megaquakes in the Pacific Northwest might trigger California’s San Andreas Fault. A research ship’s navigational error revealed paired sediment layers showing ...