The Earth’s mantle, stretching up to 1,800 miles thick and making up a whopping 84% of the planet’s volume, used to be ...

Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines.

Some of these earthquakes are very large, such as the magnitude 9.1 quake off the west coast of Sumatra that generated the ...

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic field.

In my novel, Tilt, the earthquake strikes in the late morning, on a weekday. My protagonist, Annie, 37 weeks pregnant, is ...

Conducted by researchers from Ocean University of China and Tohoku ... by slab rollback—challenges conventional models of subduction-driven circulation. The Tonga Subduction Zone, characterized ...

Part of the tectonic "Ring of Fire" encircling the Pacific Ocean, the Mariana Trench is a subduction fault where the older crustal rock of the Pacific continental plate is forced below the smaller ...

Three earthquakes struck Indonesia on Tuesday, with a 5.5-magnitude tremor hitting North Sumatra province in the morning, and ...

One common hypothesis is that the LLVPs are made up of oceanic crust that was pushed into the mantle at subduction zones. This crustal material was then stirred through the mantle over millions of ...

Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have persisted for hundreds of millions of years, others have vanished, sinking ...

There have been no reports of damage to coastal areas after Tuesday's 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the South Island, GNS ...