Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

This volcanic activity is due chiefly to the presence of the boundary between the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. The most famous volcanoes are Vesuvius near Naples and Etna on the Sicilian ...

Traditionally, scientists believed that the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates fully separated around ... educational materials, maps, and even global politics could be affected.

Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of ... by the Earth's tectonic plates like people ...

and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from Scotese about tectonic plate motions — past and present — and Earth history, check out his YouTube page.

This country is a meeting point for several tectonic plates including the Indian-Australian, Eurasian and Pacific.

Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...

It is highly prone to earthquakes due to its location on the boundary of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates.

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.