You may notice tsunami signs when visiting Oregon's coastal destinations. Here's what they mean and how to prepare yourself in case of a disaster.

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates as they plunge deep into ...

The colorful swirls and stripes that characterize China's Rainbow Mountains would have remained hidden without the epic ...

The discovery highlights the significant role of lithospheric structures in influencing tectonic plate movement and suggests microcontinents are more common than previously believed. A major ...

at the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plate boundary. Severe ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake caused landslides and sediment-laden turbidity currents that can be ...

In this region, the Indian and Sunda tectonic plates slide past each other at a ... triggering huge earthquakes. Although most maps will show the earthquake's epicentre as a point, it actually ...

Myanmar was struck by a massive 7.7-magnitude earthquake, followed by another one of 6.4 on the Richter Scale today, which claimed several lives and toppled buildings, ruptured roads and collapsed ...

The Earth's crust is broken up into several pieces called tectonic plates, which fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. This formation is “mostly stable, but along the edges they are moving ...