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 ...

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 ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

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?

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 ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Santorini's earthquakes are intensifying as a rare earthquake swarm continues to rattle the Mediterranean's Aegean Sea. The ...

The tectonic plates of the Western Conference have shifted in less than a week thanks to several drastic trades.

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

According to this theory, the lithosphere (the Earth's rigid outer layer) is divided into several tectonic plates that float and move slowly on the viscous mantle. These movements are responsible for ...