An earthquake was felt in part of north-west England on Wednesday night. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded shortly ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

New seismic data reveals that the Indian tectonic plate is breaking apart deep beneath Tibet, in a phenomenon scientists call “delamination.” This groundbreaking discovery not only redefines how the ...

The forces shaping the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau have long been a mystery to geologists. New seismic data, however, reveals an unexpected process taking place beneath the Earth’s surface. A ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

Along a stretch of scorched desert in Ethiopia, the ground quietly opened one afternoon in 2005. A gash nearly 35 miles (56.33 km) long split the earth wide, as if the land had simply decided to give ...

2022 May 22 Updated plates, boundaries, oc_boundaries and global_gprv following review. Formats are provided as shapefiles (shp), generic mapping tools (GMT), and keyhole markup language (KML) for use ...

Mojtaba Rajabi leads the Australian Stress Map project and serves as deputy head of the World Stress Map project. His research on Australia’s stress field is supported by the Australian Research ...

Emma Watts works for Swansea University. She receives funding from Natural Environment Research Council and the UK Research Council. Derek Keir works for the University of Southampton. He receives ...

The Earth’s surface is a dynamic mosaic of geological features and tectonic activity, evolving over billions of years. Understanding this intricate interplay is crucial for unraveling the planet’s ...