Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up into separate parts, eventually creating the ...

Layers of lava build up over time, creating volcanoes. Tectonic plates are key. They are large pieces of the Earth’s crust which can move towards, away from, or alongside one another ...

Around 10:30 p.m. on February 10, a 3.3 magnitude earthquake shook parts of North Idaho near the cities of Mullan and Wallace, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS). Earthquakes are ...

Plate tectonics is a theory that explains how Earth’s lithosphere—its upper mantle and crust—is split into sections called plates, which move. These movements create mountains, volcanoes and ...

These oceans continue to evolve as tectonic plates move, reshaping Earth's surface. Note: Materials provided above by The ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...