From late July to October 2022, residents of the Manu'a Islands in American Samoa felt the earth shake several times a day, ...

Seismic activity can be detected along the tectonic plate's borders ... They identified areas below the Pacific that seem like remains of submerged plates, but far away from plate boundaries with no ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The large blue area in the western Pacific (right above the center of the image) was not known until now. According to this model, submerged tectonic plates should be found near subduction zones, ...

which may be preserved from ancient tectonic plates, and other anomalies may be iron-rich or silica-rich rocks, from the early Earth. A strange finding below the western pacific, where it did not fit ...

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

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

Earth bubbles and broils beneath an underwater peak called Axial Seamount, located 480 kilometers (300 miles) off Oregon's ...

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?