A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.

Slow earthquakes are long-period earthquakes that are not so dangerous alone, but are able to trigger more destructive earthquakes. Their origins lie in tectonic plate boundaries where one plate ...

In September 2025, scientists captured a phenomenon never before seen in real time: a tectonic plate actively tearing apart ...

Once inside the oceanic mantle, bits of continents become part of the magma factory that powers ocean volcanoes.

For the first time in history, scientists have observed the rupture of a tectonic plate in a subduction zone in real time.

New seismic data reveals that the Indian tectonic plate is breaking apart deep beneath Tibet, in a phenomenon scientists call ...

There’s no geological artist quite like Earth’s plate tectonics. Thanks to this ongoing operation, we have mountains and oceans, terrifying earthquakes, incandescent volcanic eruptions, and new land ...

A 6.3-magnitude quake near Mazar-e Sharif exposed Afghanistans seismic threat. Experts explained how the collision of the ...