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

The successful development of sustainable georesources for the energy transition is a key challenge for humankind in the 21st ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

A week ago, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the Caribbean Sea. More than 44 million people live in the Caribbean region and ...

One might assume that marine fossils are exclusively unearthed in sedimentary coastal or underwater deposits. This is far ...

On February 10, 2025, an earthquake with a magnitude of 3.8 on the Richter scale occurred in district of Kota Marudu, Sabah.

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

Sometimes they pull apart at divergent boundaries, and sometimes they push together ... The famous San Andreas Fault in ...

Two Buried Supercontinents Under Africa and the Pacific Ocean Could Be Much Older Than Previously Assumed Earth has several ...

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The Pacific Coast highway (PCH) reopened Monday morning after being closed for nearly a month due to the devastating Palisades Fire. The route now has one lane in each direction and limited speed ...

He said that the region sits atop a plate boundary where the Earth's tectonic plates are spreading ... And that's why it's the most active volcanic site, you know, on the ridge and in the northeast ...