The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

What appears to be three tectonic plates in a map may act like five pieces that move underground. Northern California ...

Over the last few days, the Coachella Valley has experienced more than 20 earthquakes, causing concern among some residents.

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a magnitude 4.9 earthquake about 12 miles northeast of Indio that caused serious shaking ...

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The quake caused serious shaking in many parts of the Coachella Valley, located about 130 miles east of Los Angeles.

The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating earthquake risk at the Cascadia subduction zone.

Spain and Portugal are taking a turn. The Iberian Peninsula sits on a boundary between two large tectonic plates that are being stressed by a variety of forces, and because of this, the peninsula is ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...

Geodynamics refers to the processes by which mantle convection shapes and reshapes the Earth and other rocky planets. Its study includes plate tectonics, volcanism, the chemistry of lava and volcanic ...