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 ...

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

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

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 ...

P lates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent plate boundaries releases suddenly, the plates can slip several meters ...

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.

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 ...

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