Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent ...

Oregon scientists are hoping to help the coastal communities survive a major inundation in various ways. One of those is ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the ...

A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

These fragments of our surface do have a tendency to sink into Earth's mantle when they lose out in the plate-on-plate ...

Geophysicists find areas that resemble the results of tectonic plate collisions — far from any area of such activity.

Scientists have identified mysterious blobs of Earth's ancient crust, or 'sunken worlds,' deep within the mantle using ...

Unexpected mantle structures hint at ancient or unknown materials, challenging current tectonic theories and prompting deeper ...

Scientists discovered plate anomalies in Earth's mantle using seismic wave analysis. These mysterious structures challenge ...