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

Most resources are available near tectonic plate boundaries, such as the Pacific Ring of Fire ... and geothermal could be the answer to backing up intermittent renewables. In 2021, Google partnered ...

is a tectonic plate boundary where the Arabian Plate subducts beneath the Eurasian Plate, creating a seismically complex zone prone to earthquakes and tsunamis. Therefore, option (d) is the correct ...

For example, the Ring of Fire around the edges of the Pacific Ocean is a string of volcanoes and seismic activity, primarily caused by plate tectonics ... common way geothermal energy is used today.

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...

The world's highest mountain range - the Himalayas - is a testament to the power of plate tectonics. Forced upwards by the gradual northward push of the Indian plate into the Eurasian plate.

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Aftershocks are expected from an earthquake that shook residents awake along a stretch of Australia's east coast. The quake struck at 2.55am on Wednesday near Singleton in the NSW Hunter Valley ...

at the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plate boundary. Severe ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake caused landslides and sediment-laden turbidity currents that can be ...

Scientists have discovered an unusually thick mantle transition zone beneath the Lesser Antilles. This discovery sheds new light on how oceanic plates sink into the Earth's mantle. Variations ...