Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian ...

The chain of extinct and fossilized volcanoes stretched beneath South China and was formed during the breakup of the ...

Undersea earthquakes and volcanic eruptions displace destructive amounts of water and send it across oceans to flood distant ...

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the 21 largest earthquakes ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely occurring more than 4.2 billion years ago when life is thought to have first formed on our planet.

Earth-like plate tectonics may have shaped Venus billions of years ago A new study bolsters the theory that microbial life could have existed on our sister planet. Laura Baisas Oct 27, 2023 11:00 ...