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

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

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

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 ...

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

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.

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 Atlantic Ocean is currently getting wider at the mid-Atlantic Ridge, a divergent plate boundary that pushes the Old and New Worlds apart at a rate of around 2.5cm per year.

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 ...

A 5. 8-magnitude quake hit Puerto Rico before dawn Monday at 6:32 a. m. just south of the island at a relatively shallow depth of 6 miles according to the U. S. Geological Service. This created ...