Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate has been brought back into view. In one of Earth's most tectonically ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Our world’s surface is a jumble of jostling tectonic plates, with new ones emerging as others are pulled under. The ongoing cycle keeps our continents in motion and drives life on Earth. But what ...

A slab of seafloor that was around when Earth’s earliest known dinosaurs emerged has been discovered underneath the Pacific Ocean. It has seemingly hovered there in a kind of mid-dive for more than ...

The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history. Even with the infrastructure plans championed by policymakers in the West, major ...

The fault that produced the earthquake lies between two pieces of hard rock sandwiching a slippery clay layer, allowing for ...