Dive into the world beneath your feet and discover what tectonic plates are, how they move, and why they're responsible for ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and ...

so scientists are closely monitoring the system’s every shiver and burp. (Here’s how we found out that a powerful earthquake split a tectonic plate in two.) What we are looking at right now is ...

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors. Earthquakes occur along faults, which are fractures between blocks of rock that allow the blocks to move ...

But when did Earth's surface splinter into tectonic plates? And when did those plates ... back to 'tipping point' 3.2 billion years ago Every piece of evidence for each of these origin stories ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants ... seismic waves as they travel through the Earth—every moment of refraction, diffraction, and reflection of those ...

The Indian subcontinent, situated at the collision zone of two major tectonic plates -- the Indian Plate ... and continue to rise every year, and the Indian subcontinent continues to move ...

Waterfalls, geysers, and volcanic formations greet your eyes at every turn in Iceland ... a rift between the Eurasian and North American tectonic plates filled with glacier meltwater.