Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

Sometimes they pull apart at divergent boundaries, and sometimes they push together at convergent boundaries. When plates come together at convergent boundaries, they often slide under each other, ...

Subduction zones are locations on Earth where one tectonic plate dives below the other, and are known for powerful seismic activity. Earth's lithosphere (its outermost shell) is formed of around ...

Oceans are not necessarily a permanent fixture on Earth, as they are able to appear and close due to the work of plate tectonics. More specifically, subduction zones — where tectonic plates slip ...

Aside from the danger they pose, such earthquakes disrupt the slow, long-term changes occurring at subduction zones. The cycle of sudden earthquakes and slow plate movement makes it difficult for ...