Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the area in which a magnitude 8.8. earthquake occurred on July 29, is within the so-called "ring of fire." ...

Kamchatsky, a coastal city in Russia's Far East, at 11:24 pm Indian time on July 29. The earthquake area falls in the ...

Map of the Pangea-Tethys and Panthalassa plate tectonic realms separated by the Juction Region. Present-day plate boundaries are red. (CREDIT: ScienceDirect)© The Brighter Side of News ...

A study published in the journal Tectonics has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in ...

Queensland researchers have a better understanding of the world's tectonic plate stress patterns caused by the underground ...

The world’s oceans and continents sit on 15 major blocks that move and shift, called tectonic plates, that make up the lower crust and upper mantle.

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

At the Afar triple junction under Ethiopia, where three tectonic plates meet, molten magma pounds the planet's crust from below, scientists have discovered.

Within the former are included the Geologic Map of the Moon, the Lithologic Map of the Moon, and the Tectonic Map of the Moon. The latter includes 30 standard-sized quadrangles.