During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

The quake that struck Alaska’s southern coast on Wednesday, July 16 is part of a larger sequence that may continue to unfold ...

Earthquake scientists rely on distant seismic instruments to infer how faults rupture during large earthquakes. This video ...

The Ring of Fire is an area around the Pacific Ocean that traces the boundaries between several tectonic plates. Also referred to as the Circum-Pacific Belt, this path is approximately ...

The 8.7 magnitude quake, followed by a 8.2 magnitude aftershock, could signal the formation of a new plate boundary under the Earth. While not the largest earthquakes ever recorded, the two quakes ...

At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle rises toward the surface and pushes apart two or more plates. Mountains and volcanoes rise along the seam.

Tectonic tips A new study of tectonic plate boundaries may help scientists understand how earthquakes happen. The work by researchers including Dr Giampiero Iaffaldano from the Australian National ...

The continent with the lowest risk is Antarctica, not too surprising as it is ringed by divergent plate boundaries that average more than 1,000 miles away from the coast. But low risk doesn’t ...

At divergent boundaries, ... Wannamaker and colleagues use electrical resistivity data to investigate a plate boundary in New ... This is consistent with a number of studies of the earthquake ...

Some geologists think it took a while for plate tectonics to emerge, no earlier than 2.8 billion years ago. Others argue it began much earlier (SN: 4/22/20).It’s hard to know for sure because ...

What if the most telling indications of an impending volcanic eruption are buried deep under the ocean, or in a fleeting succession of tiny quakes that no one perceives? As volcanoes of the Pacific ...