The West Coast of North America is a geologically tumultuous zone where tectonic plates collide, subducting under and ...

Earthquakes themselves affect the movement of Earth's tectonic plates, which in turn could impact on future earthquakes, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen. This new knowledge ...

The edge of a tectonic plate, one of the massive shelves of crust that carry the continents and ocean’s floor, is splitting right down the middle. Scientists started to study the plate, located off ...

September 2017 saw a pair of weird earthquakes in Mexico. A magnitude 8.2 on September 8 just offshore the state of Chiapas was followed by a magnitude 7.1 on September 19—this time much closer to ...

WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico has felt hundreds of aftershocks after the Jan. 7 magnitude 6.4 earthquake. And throughout history, earthquakes are not an unheard-of occurrence on the island. This is because ...

The 8.2 magnitude earthquake that brought devastation and 98 deaths to southern Mexico in September 2017 was even more extreme than initially thought — it split the tectonic plate responsible for the ...

At least six dead from earthquakes which triggered tsunami warnings. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of the ...

The earthquakes both struck at a shallow depth of approximately 10 kilometers, or about 6 miles below the surface.

The quake’s epicenter lies in the remote waters between South America and Antarctica, where seismic activity is rare.

A groundbreaking study has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in Europe’s most seismically active regions. Researchers used advanced satellite data to track land ...

Rescuers and volunteers in Mexico City search for survivors amid the rubble and debris following the 2017 earthquake. Getty Images The 8.2 magnitude earthquake that brought devastation and 98 deaths ...

One would assume the lithosphere would be lower-density than the asthenosphere. As the lithosphere tries diving into the layer below it wouldn't it want to float back to the top? Rather than the ...