Delhi-NCR was jolted by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning, with the epicentre located in Haryana’s Jhajjar ...

There are several fault lines lies near Delhi, which includes the prominent Mahendragarh-Dehradun Fault (MDF) and the ...

The Concord Fault, which runs through Bay Area neighborhoods in Concord and Walnut Creek is in a different location than previously understood. It could produce a major earthquake in the Bay Area.

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

A major California fault once thought to be stable is quietly shifting beneath neighborhoods, schools, and it could lead to a ...

A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

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Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

This includes the movements of the Earth’s tectonic plates that result in the creation, destruction and rearrangement of the Earth’s crust and lithosphere.

This region is where the edges of the Pacific and Nazca plates butt up against an array of other tectonic plates. Importantly, however, the volcanoes of the ring are not geologically connected.

Tectonic plates are composed of the Earth's crust and the uppermost part of the mantle, and beneath them lies the asthenosphere—the hot, viscous conveyor belt of rock on which tectonic plates ride.