New Jersey experiences earthquakes due to the fault line running through the state. Here is the science behind the cause and the Ramapo Fault.

The Pacific "Ring of Fire" is a seismically active zone encircling the Pacific Ocean, where frequent earthquakes and numerous ...

There's something large moving deep beneath New England. This is the conclusion of a new paper by researchers from the ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped belt of volcanoes known for explosive eruptions and intense earthquakes.

Facebook X Reddit Email About 150 million years ago, a massive tectonic mega-plate stretched across the Earth, spanning roughly a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean. Its jagged contours ran ...

Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian ...

Home to llamas, ceviche, and more than 50 volcanoes, Peru dances on tectonic edges thanks to subduction under the Andes. Its seismic monitoring network has expanded rapidly, and school kids ...

Around 800 million years ago, during the Tonian period, the Yangtze Block in South China experienced significant tectonic ...