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 ...

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

such as plate subduction, which occurs when an oceanic plate slides beneath a continental plate. By analyzing how earthquake waves propagate from an epicenter, scientists can deduce the density ...

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

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, ...

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 ...