A hidden shard of ancient crust has been detected where California’s San Andreas system collides with the Cascadia subduction ...

Tremors beneath Northern California show hidden plate movement, helping scientists better understand where future big ...

Tiny earthquakes have revealed potentially deadly hidden faults beneath California. By tracking swarms of very small tremors, ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R. Dietmar ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.

In 2021, geologists animated a video that shows how Earth's tectonic plates moved over the last billion years. The plates move together and apart at the speed of fingernail growth, and the video ...

Our world’s surface is a jumble of jostling tectonic plates, with new ones emerging as others are pulled under. The ongoing cycle keeps our continents in motion and drives life on Earth. But what ...

Memorizing seven continents feels settled, like learning the alphabet. A new study argues the ground rules are less tidy.

Long-lost remnants of tectonic plates have been discovered sunken deep inside the Earth's mantle. These plate remains were found lurking underneath the center of other continental plates, far from ...

Venus, a scorching wasteland of a planet according to scientists, may have once had tectonic plate movements similar to those believed to have occurred on early Earth, a new study found. PROVIDENCE, R ...