The surface of our planet is a true geological theater where a permanent spectacle of movements and transformations takes place. These impressive phenomena result from plate tectonics, a ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface ...

An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ...

New crust forms at midocean ridges, where gaps between separating plates create space for magma from the mantle to rise. In a ...

Tsukuba, Japan – Subduction zones, where a slab of oceanic plate is pushed beneath another tectonic plate down into the mantle, cause the world’s largest and most destructive earthquakes.

Geoscientists from the University of Toronto have made a breakthrough discovery that adds new dimensions to the theory of plate tectonics. Their research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, ...

These are two very different fault systems, but the sediment record suggests that in the past, at least three San Andreas ...

The disaster caused by a predicted large earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could be compounded by shaking along the San Andreas fault in California, scientists warned.

Researchers used a novel finite-fault inversion method with seismometer data from around the world to investigate a deep intraslab earthquake that occurred on March 4, 2021, off the northeastern tip ...

Subduction zones, where a slab of oceanic plate is pushed beneath another tectonic plate down into the mantle, cause the world's largest and most destructive earthquakes. Reconstructing the geometry ...