The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

Intraplate tectonic settings, located far from active plate margins, have historically been considered stable. However, infrequent but destructive ...

During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...

Scientists have uncovered shocking evidence that India’s tectonic plates are literally splitting apart.

Analysis - During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment ...

Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

Scientists reconstructed 540 million years of sea level changes, showing Earth's oceans rose and fell by hundreds of feet ...

Thin layer models are widely used in the finitedifference time-domain (FDTD) technique to efficiently model boundaries in multi-scale simulations as they significantly reduce simulation run-times and ...

Due to the radiative thermal conductivity of the mineral olivine, only oceanic plates over 60 million years old and subducting at more than 10 centimeters per year remain sufficiently cold to ...