Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Pakistan's Balochistan province, injuring at least five people and damaging homes. The ...

Earth’s lithosphere is made up of 15 major plates and around 40 smaller ones. They move slowly, anywhere from 1 to 20 centimeters per year, driven by convection currents deep within the mantle.

Dive into the world beneath your feet and discover what tectonic plates are, how they move, and why they're responsible for earthquakes, volcanoes, and the shifting of continents.

Ghostly white giant worms appear to be reproducing under the seafloor where tectonic plates meet. News. By Sascha Pare published 15 October 2024 ... (Oct. 15) in the journal Nature Communications.

A video of a California woman exploring a place where you can physically walk between two shifting tectonic plates has captivated viewers on TikTok.. The clip of the rare geological wonder, which ...

The tectonic parade. Earth's tectonic plates are constantly in a slow-motion march, with some edges pulling apart and others colliding. At least three times in our planet's 4.54-billion-year ...