Creating new unitary councils could disrupt some of the biggest social care systems in the country, writes an independent ...

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 ...

A recent study challenges the long-held belief of the Indian plate smoothly sliding under the Eurasian plate. Seismic data ...

Iceland, the land of ice and fire, is for geologists what the tropics are for ecologists: an opportunity for an unparalleled ...

With a computer rendering, he helped scientists understand that the earth, with its shifting tectonic plates, is “an ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

The earthquake is what geologists call a 'slip-strike' tremor, triggered by two tectonic plates suddenly moving past one another. When the plates get stuck on each other in the fault region ...

A strike-slip fault movement is caused by two different tectonic plates moving in opposite directions. These tectonic plates move at incredibly slow rates, approximately millimeters per year.

An earthquake hit north of Tonasket, Washington in Okanogan County early Sunday morning, according to the Pacific Northwest ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...