Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and ...

The tectonic plates under Africa and Asia are slowly drifting apart, as the Gulf of Suez that separates these two land masses ...

Earthquake faults deep in the Earth can glue themselves back together following a seismic event, according to a new study led ...

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Trump’s ill-conceived tariff war exposed U.S. vulnerabilities, strengthened China’s leverage and undermined America at a ...

For millions of years, scientists believed the rift between Africa and Asia had ceased its tectonic pull. But recent findings ...

The shape of the Earth's oceans and continents is dictated inexorable movements of the tectonic plates, but where did those ...

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.

Scientists have uncovered a hidden geological process where fragments of continents are slowly stripped from below and swept deep into the oceanic mantle, sparking volcanic activity in unexpected ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have uncovered the key mechanism behind seismic activities in the eastern Himalayas, providing ...