Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Earthquakes are among the most formidable natural disasters, striking with little warning and causing widespread devastation.

French strategic expert Bruno Tertrais charts the awakening of empires contesting the United States’ monopoly on global leadership in “War of the Worlds: The Return of Geopolitics and the Clash of ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

The Japanese government has issued an urgent warning over the catastrophic damage which could be caused by an impending ...

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

Photo: H.Khoi Although Vietnam is not located on major tectonic belts and is unlikely to experience devastating earthquakes, the country still faces the risk of significant seismic activity, ...

This region includes major tectonic plates such as the Pacific, Philippine, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, and Nazca Plates. Most of these plates collide and subduct beneath one another, creating intense ...

This trench is where the Philippine Sea tectonic ... plate on which Japan rests. Over time, the plates become locked, accumulating energy that is eventually released in the form of major earthquakes.

A fascinating new study reveals that a massive chunk of Earth’s crust, buried deep beneath the Midwest, is slowly pulling ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...