The earthquake in Russia's Kamchatka peninsula on July 30, 2025, may have been one of the most severe on record, with a ...

The integration of petrological, geochemical, and isotopic data strongly supports the hypothesis that plate tectonics began to operate, at least partially, by the latest Neoarchean (~2.54 Ga).

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

Geologists from The University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how the Earth’s early continents ...

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to ...

It has been thought that plate tectonics were a significant factor in the shaping of our planet and the evolution of life. Mars and Venus don't experience such movements of crustal plates, but ...

New simulations reveal that an ancient ocean of magma located above the Earth's core continues to shape the planet's underground landscape.

It took many years for this intercontinental drift and plate tectonics model to become established, as the evidence in its favour gradually accumulated and neatly explained very many observations ...

An expert has said that the epicentre of the quake is located in an area responsible for 90% of the world's earthquakes.

Intraplate tectonic settings, located far from active plate margins, have historically been considered stable. However, infrequent but destructive ...