Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

Researchers have found the "ignition" mechanism of earthquakes, with their latest findings published in "Nature." They ...

Recently, I purchased a set of plates that looked like they were from the '70s, and I use them nearly every night. One evening while admiring the design, I began to wonder what year, exactly ...

A subset of these planetesimals then accreted to form the Earth, which, over several hundred million years, formed a crust consisting of mobile tectonic plates that hosted the first biosphere. Dr. Fu ...

Researchers have discovered evidence suggesting that the Indian tectonic ... of the plate is detaching from the lighter upper part as it pushes against the Eurasian plate. This detachment is not a ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants ... years ago and has survived despite the convective movements in the mantle,” Thomas Schouten, first author of ...

This flow is what drives the movement of tectonic plates on Earth’s surface, causing earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the shifting of continents. Heat from the Earth’s core causes convection ...

According to Li Ling, a deputy director at the Tibetan Administrative Region’s Special Disaster Investigation Office, the earthquake was caused due to tectonic plate movement ... restricting ...

This area is a hotspot for seismic activity due to the ongoing collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, a process that's been shaping the Himalayas for the past 60 million years.