Deep beneath the Earth’s surface, a monumental geological event is unfolding. Scientists from the University of Göttingen have discovered that the Neotethys oceanic plate, once the ocean floor between ...

The deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake that jolted Dingri county of Shigatse in the Xizang autonomous region on Tuesday happened following a northward compression from the Indian Ocean plate and crustal ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two ...

Data collected by NASA's InSight lander suggest that ancient internal processes are responsible for the "Martian dichotomy" ...

A new study has revealed a hidden mechanism that could explain how creeping stress along tectonic plates can lead to ... aseismic movements at fault lines can build up energy.

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

This frequency is due to the unique movements of the tectonic plates that make up the Earth’s crust ... This releases stored-up ‘elastic strain’ energy in the form of seismic waves, which spreads ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea trench near Japan’s Pacific coast ...

A subset of these planetesimals then accreted to form the Earth, which, over several hundred million years, formed a crust consisting of mobile tectonic plates that hosted the first biosphere. Dr. Fu ...

Researchers have discovered evidence suggesting that the Indian tectonic ... plate is undergoing a process known as “delamination.” This means that the denser lower portion of the plate is detaching ...