The audience was stunned. Atwater was the first person to use the newly revealed secrets of the seafloor to explain a ...

Tremors beneath Northern California show hidden plate movement, helping scientists better understand where future big ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump is a transformative figure in contemporary American politics. Despite being impeached twice, indicted and convicted, he has been elected to the presidency for a second ...

Slow earthquakes are long-period earthquakes that are not so dangerous alone, but are able to trigger more destructive earthquakes. Their origins lie in tectonic plate boundaries where one plate ...

The emergence of plate tectonics in the late 1960s led to a paradigm shift from fixism to mobilism of global tectonics, providing a unifying context for the previously disparate disciplines of Earth ...

Geoscientists from the University of Toronto have made a breakthrough discovery that adds new dimensions to the theory of plate tectonics. Their research, published in Geophysical Research Letters, ...

The giant tectonic plate under the Indian Ocean is going through a rocky breakup … with itself. In a short time (geologically speaking) this plate will split in two, a new study finds. To humans, ...