Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

A University of Michigan study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully ...

A new study has revealed that two continent-sized regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting ...

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...

SEATTLE — A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck near Auburn Saturday morning with reports of it being felt in Tacoma and Seattle. The earthquake reportedly happened at 3:45 a.m. at a depth of 25.3 ...