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 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...

Unlike Earth, Mars doesn’t have tectonic plates, so this discovery reshaped how scientists view the planet's internal dynamics. The vibrations recorded by InSight’s ultra-sensitive seismometer ...

Researchers from ETH Zurich and the California Institute of Technology say that these structures could be remnants of ancient tectonic plates. However, these remains could be fragments of oceanic ...

Cratons are the most ancient, stable pieces of tectonic plates, but even these geological formations can change over time. A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping” into ...

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If the two tectonic plates continue to shift and the EAR system widens further, eventually a large basin will form. Due to the close proximity of the Indian Ocean, it’s likely that the basin ...

Few things are used more in our daily lives than money. Money is at the heart of a modern global economy and is basically one-half of everything we do in commerce. Yet, despite money’s ...

The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...

At 42-31, the Warriors moved back into the sixth spot — the last position that doesn’t include a play-in game — with the Los Angeles Clippers moving from sixth to eighth at 42-32 after a ...

Moving Employees in Schedule 1 is much more complicated than you would imagine. There is no direct feature allowing the process; therefore, players have to rely on a workaround. When you hire an ...

The Thai capital has been declared a disaster area. • Earth’s lithosphere, the rigid outermost rocky shell of the planet, is made up of a number of tectonic plates. These have been slowly moving over ...