Imagine a world where the Americas were not connected—a time when wild Pacific waters crashed against scattered islands, and ...

Greenland is present on the North American tectonic plate, as per experts. For tens of millions of years, this plate has ...

Despite being tied together beneath the surface, these regions diverge sharply above it. Iceland and the Azores are ...

A Caribbean conveyor belt of hot air is set to ... go to parks or hit the beach, this weekend. New maps from Netweather.tv and WXCharts show a plume of warm air drifting across the Atlantic ...

Although the Caribbean is well-known for its sunshine and beaches, it now has a new claim to fame in the world of plate tectonics." "It's wild to think that in some ways tectonic plates have a ...

"The Earth is made of tectonic plates, and at the edges of the plates are where all the activity happens mostly, that's where there are earthquakes, that's where there are volcanoes and other ...

Cratons are the most ancient, stable pieces of tectonic plates, but even these geological formations can change over time. A new study details how the North American plate is “dripping” into ...

The 28 March magnitude 7.7 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) earthquake caused widespread and severe damage in Myanmar and neighboring countries such as Thailand, with more than 5,000 casualties now ...

The earth's upper layer is split into different sections, called tectonic plates, which are all moving constantly. Some move alongside each other, whilst others are above and below each other.

Shallower earthquakes tend to cause more damage. The entire earth crust is broken into several pieces called tectonic plates. They fit togther like a jigsaw puzzle. According to Columbia University ...