Tibetan uplift was mainly caused by post-collisional mantle dynamics, not ongoing India-Asia convergence. The study ...

When standing in many places in Yellowstone National Park, the signs of a buried heat source are unmistakable, making one inclined to wonder “how far beneath my feet is there ...

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

About 100 people came out to learn from seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones at the Newport Beach Public Library's Friends Room ...

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 been strangely ... They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries, like East ...

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 ...