Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Explore the Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically active region around the Pacific Ocean known for earthquakes and volcanoes.

There’s no geological artist quite like Earth’s plate tectonics. Thanks to this ongoing operation, we have mountains and oceans, terrifying earthquakes, incandescent volcanic eruptions, and ...

Tectonic plates: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Their movements cause some of the world's deadliest disasters, but, as you're about to see, the alternative is much, much worse.

Nepal is situated along the Himalayas, where there is a lot of seismic activity. It is located on a convergent boundary, where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates collide.

In plate tectonics, the Earth’s lithosphere, the outermost layer composed of the crust and upper mantle, is divided into sizable rocky plates. These plates rest on the asthenosphere, a semi ...

When plates come together at convergent boundaries, they often slide under each other, which is called subduction. All of these movements can cause earthquakes.

Three main types of plate movements majorly cause earthquakes: convergent boundaries, where plates collide and one is pushed under the other; divergent boundaries, where plates separate and magma ...

Some think plate movement fired up as little as 700 million years ago, when simple multicellular life already existed. Others believe only single-celled organisms reigned when Earth's plates first ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a megathrust fault or the meeting of two tectonic plates. The Juan de Fuca plate is being forced under the North American plate at a convergent boundary. Friction ...