Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Copenhagen: In a significant discovery, scientists have found a lost continental piece hidden beneath the thick ice of ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by scientists – but which poses a major tsunami hazard. The 2.43pm quake hit ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

New research reveals a surprising link between the ancient tectonic history of oceanic plates and their fate as they subduct ...

Although the Caribbean is well-known for its sunshine and beaches, it now has a new claim to fame in the world of plate tectonics." "It's wild to think that in some ways tectonic plates have a ...