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

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 ...

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

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

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.

Plate motions are the main cause of earthquakes, ... Keenan and Encarnacion traveled to the Philippines to study plates in that region. They found that a divergent plate boundary, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...