Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

According to the findings, North America and Europe—separated by the Atlantic Ocean—may still be geologically linked. "The ...

A significant earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale has struck the Philippine island of Mindanao, according to reports from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center. This event has ...

Here we explain how and why the crisis developed. Iceland is a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in ...

The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust. It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates. The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet.

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

Although the Caribbean is well-known for its sunshine and beaches, it now has a new claim to fame in the world of plate tectonics." "It's wild to think that in some ways tectonic plates have a ...

Pressure from a pool of magma has just cracked solid rock, creating a volcano-tectonic (VT) event. This type of quake produces relatively high-frequency shaking, usually between one and five ...