A massive 37-million-year-old underwater canyon reveals the fossil trace of an ancient Atlantic tectonic boundary.

The deadly 6.8 magnitude earthquake that jolted Dingri county of Shigatse in the Xizang autonomous region on Tuesday happened following a northward compression from the Indian Ocean plate and crustal ...

One study finds the Iberian Peninsula rotates clockwise as Africa closes on Eurasia by 0.2 inches per year (5 millimeters), near Gibraltar and the Alboran region. A team in northern Spain combined ...

Japanese seismologists were still mulling over the subsea earthquake which shook and wave-smashed their islands a fortnight ago. At Tokyo’s Earthquake Research Institute, Dr. Takahiro Hagiwara, one of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 25,000 earthquakes rattled the Greek islands earlier this year, sending residents fleeing and prompting tourists to ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

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Get this - scientists have discovered that something is actually moving inside the Moon! It sounds straight out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s real. Using special equipment, they’ve detected small shifts ...

ABSTRACT: The mid-ocean ridge serves as the epicenter of oceanic spreading. It generates the majority of the Earth’s magmas and is the birthplace of new oceanic crusts. However, our current ...