A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

The vertical movement of the mantle is one of the driving forces that brings about large-scale geological changes to the ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

There have been no reports of damage however authorities have advised residents to prepare to move to safety if needed.

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

The birth of a behemoth The planet’s tectonic plates are in constant motion, reshaping the surface as they pull apart and collide. The Himalaya are the dramatic result of one such tectonic ...

There are seven major tectonic plates and several smaller ones. The major plates include the Pacific, North American, Eurasian, African, South American, Antarctic, and Indo-Australian Plates ...

Pakistan falls on three major tectonic plates — the Arabian, Eurasian and Indian — according to geological engineer Muhammad Rehan, creating five seismic zones within the country.

Map of the Pangea-Tethys and Panthalassa plate tectonic realms separated by the Juction Region. Present-day plate boundaries are red (modified from Bird, 2003), relevant former plate boundaries ...

“We didn’t know continents could behave this way, and that is, for solid earth science, pretty fundamental,” remarked Douwe van Hinsbergen, a geodynamicist at Utrecht University. This finding is ...

Major cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and San Diego could effectively be wiped off the map.

Plate Tectonics The expert explained that Greece lies on the Aegean Sea plate, a region between several major tectonic plates, including the Anatolian plate to the east and the African plate to the ...