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 ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

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

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 ...

When plates come together at convergent boundaries, they often slide under each other, which is called subduction. All of these movements can cause earthquakes. Earthquakes can build mountains or tear ...

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

A 3.0 magnitude earthquake shook the ground in far east King County on Tuesday morning. The Puget Sound Seismic Network (PNSN ...

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