Tsunamis are enormous, potentially destructive sea waves caused primarily by subaquatic earthquakes, volcanic activity, or ...

The July 30 earthquake occurred due to tensions along the subduction faultline between the Pacific and the Okhotsk tectonic plates. The area is part of the Ring of Fire, a zone of earthquakes and ...

Tectonic map of the Philippine Sea Plate, highlighting the different microplates that formed as a result of oceanic spreading at different spreading centers. Present-day plate boundaries are red.

The first whole-Earth plate tectonic map of half a billion years of Earth’s history EARTH is estimated to be around 4.5 billion years old, with life first appearing around three billion years ago.

How We Made Our Map In our day-to-day work, we use the shapes of continents and the geology they carry to reconstruct how real tectonic plate “puzzle pieces” moved around on Earth over time.

The Philippine islands form part of the so called “ring of fire”, where many of Earth's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur. The country has more than 300 volcanoes, of which 24 are ...

Most earthquake hazard maps contain little to no information on the types of tectonic mechanisms that might fuel the next big one. The new map could help risk models better account for the kinds ...