It’s surprising to find remnants of a plate that we just didn’t know about at all,” Suzanna van de Lagemaat, the Utrecht University geologist whose work has reversed decades of conventional wisdom ...

ETH Zurich scientists confirmed that solid rock flows deep inside Earth, solving a decades-old mystery about seismic waves.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

A ‘ghost plume’ identified deep in the mantle beneath Oman suggests there may be more heat flowing out of Earth’s core than ...

“It’s almost like the Earth is running the experiment for us,” she says. The planet’s tectonic plates are in constant motion, reshaping the surface as they pull apart and collide. The ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and ...

This is the moment a magnitude 5.9 earthquake rattled a home in Taiwan. Video shows the tremors shaking picture frames and glass doors in the house in Changhua, on June 11. The United States ...

A recent satellite image captured a glowing river of lava flowing down the flank of Europe's largest active volcano as it ...