By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...
Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...
Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...
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 all the way through the ...
Africa gradually pulled apart along the East African rift, a slow tectonic shift that could have formed a new ocean and ...
Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.
Venus, a scorching wasteland of a planet according to scientists, may have once had tectonic plate movements similar to those believed to have occurred on early Earth, a new study found. PROVIDENCE, R ...