Seismic waves from earthquakes have always offered a window into Earth’s hidden interior. For decades, researchers believed ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Compositional anomalies in oceanic plates, resulting from ancient tectonic activities, affect their descent into Earth's mantle. These anomalies, particularly ...

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 ...

to the Pleistocene, directed by plate tectonic forces in connection with the Red Sea-rifting and the collision of the Arabian with the Eurasian Plates.

SIOUX CITY (KTIV) - Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines. A subduction fault is when two plates have different densities.

Plate tectonics is relatively new, put forth in the last 30 years or so — its forerunner was the now-discarded continental drift theory. The theory states that Earth's outer shell is made up of ...