An international team has made a significant breakthrough in understanding the tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.

Data from boreholes in plate boundaries could explain slow earthquakes Date: June 28, 2021 Source: University of Tokyo Summary: Slow earthquakes are long-period earthquakes that are not so dangerous ...

To learn why, where, and how earthquakes happen, you need to familiarize your students with the interior of the Earth and a model called plate tectonics. The engine behind the earthquake machine is ...

An unprecedented observation of a major geological process is currently taking place off the North American coast. For the ...

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 ...

Scientists have reconstructed a long-lost tectonic plate that may have given rise to an arc of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean 60 million years ago. The plate, dubbed Resurrection, has long been ...

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time. The study, published in the scientific journal Science Advances, was ...