Earth’s crust is divided into huge, rigid tectonic plates that move across its surface. Their slow motion powers earthquakes, fuels volcanoes, and drives the endless reshaping of continents.

Scientists have recently found new seismic data that shows that the Indian tectonic plate isn’t just sliding under the Eurasian plate as once believed, it’s actually splitting in two deep ...

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 ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

reshaping our understanding of plate tectonics. Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock composition within oceanic ...

But plate tectonics isn't actually required to produce these signatures, according to the new study published April 2 in the journal Nature. These findings are important for the debate over when ...

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