Volcanoes are among nature’s most powerful forces — breathtaking yet potentially catastrophic. According to a visual produced ...

“We thought it would be a very interesting opportunity to not just look at the 1976 earthquake, but actually learn a little bit more about the paleoseismic history of the plate boundary, which we know ...

When these plates collide, pull apart, or slide past each other, earthquakes can occur along the lines in which said two plates interact. There are three main types of plate boundaries: convergent, ...

A major earthquake in Southern California this week has reignited fears that the 'Big One' is coming, but scientists say it may come from an unlikely source. The little-known Elsinore fault is ...

Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes ... typically found at divergent plate boundaries, such as ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries, having experienced major quakes like the 1994 Northridge event. A strong but shallow earthquake with a ...

Unlike the San Andreas, large earthquakes on this fault have ... the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries, like East Africa, where plates ...

Unlike the San Andreas, large earthquakes on this fault have ... the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries, like East Africa, where plates ...

The earthquake struck at a depth of 10 kilometers ... Ridge is known for its continuous tectonic activity, resultant from the divergent boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the North American Plate ...