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

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 ...

• A short spreading centre (divergent plate boundary) south and west of George Town, where the two plates pull away from each other causing magma to come up through the divide, which then cools ...

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

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous ...

TOKYO: Strain accumulating at the boundary between tectonic plates under the Hyuganada Sea off Miyazaki Prefecture has caused earthquakes of magnitude 7 or greater five times since 1931, before ...

It's well known that earthquakes can rock fault-filled places like the U.S. West Coast. But why do earthquakes happen in the middle of tectonic plates?

Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics. The temblor struck more than 3 billion years ago. The rocks preserve ...

Before plate tectonics, we lacked a good understanding of how mountains form and earthquakes take place.

Although modern plate tectonics is characterized by a global network of mobile belts on the present Earth, its operation on the ancient Earth history can be tested by inspection of plate divergent ...