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

Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies ...

Plate tectonics also exposes rocks that react ... Earth's history is a leap forward in the scientific grand challenge to map ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

This country is a meeting point for several tectonic plates including the Indian-Australian, Eurasian and Pacific.

This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from the Eurasian and Arabian tectonic plates ... providing one of the most detailed maps of the bottom of the world's oceans ever ...

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 centred in the Sagaing region near the Myanmar city of Mandalay caused extensive ...

Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the ... moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very slowly.

NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, aka SWOT, has provided one of the most detailed maps of the seafloor ever created.