Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

Earthquakes happen every day all over the world, along both tectonic plate edges and interiors. Earthquakes occur along faults, which are fractures between blocks of rock that allow the blocks to move ...

Four types of plate tectonic activity are demonstrated in this feature. Keep an eye on the map to see where in the world the activity takes place. Also known as spreading boundary, a divergent ...

An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.

The Hawaiian Islands, which are entirely volcanic in origin, formed in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but are located more than 3,200 kilometres from the nearest plate ... map. Over 450 of the ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...

The Ring of Fire is home to 75% of the world's volcanoes and 90% of its ... the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de ...