New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics ...

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by ...

On March 28, a powerful earthquake hit Myanmar and its cataclysmic shockwaves reached Bangkok, causing the State Audit Office building to collapse. Since most Thais lack an understanding about ...

The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history.

A recent study challenges previous geological assumptions, revealing that Earth's initial protocrust closely resembled the ...

The two earthquakes occurred half an hour apart. BMKG recorded the earthquakes as shallow, with a depth of 24 kilometers in ...