Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

Plates can also move past each other, like at the San Andreas Fault in the USA, which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These are known as ...

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National ...

The 5.5-magnitude quake struck North Sumatra province at 5:22 a.m. local time on Tuesday. The epicenter was located 17 km ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have ...

is located on the plate boundary between the Indo-Australian plate and the Pacific plate. This highly seismic region has a ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

Three earthquakes struck Indonesia on Tuesday, with a 5.5-magnitude tremor hitting North Sumatra province in the morning, and ...

The region is situated where the Philippine Sea Plate is sandwiched between the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate ... that the subduction zone plate boundary contains much more foliated ...