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

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

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

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

SEATTLE — A magnitude 3.4 earthquake struck near Auburn Saturday morning with reports of it being felt in Tacoma and Seattle.

International scientists reveal that magma transports gold from the mantle to the surface by means of a sulfur complex.

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake shook near Squamish, British Columbia on Friday afternoon. The earthquake was reported at 1:26 p.m ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6 on the Richter Scale jolted Santa Cruz, a statement by the National Center for Seismology stated ...

A preliminary earthquake measuring 3.5 on the Richter scale hit 16.2 kilometers southwest of Maple Valley, Washington, early ...

The earthquake reportedly happened at 3:45 a.m. at a depth of 25.3 kilometers, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake was recorded just southeast of Auburn along the Green ...