In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

TOKYO -- The transport ministry on June 17 announced plans to standardize the design of "gotochi" regional car license plates, featuring illustrations created by municipalities in Japan to promote ...

Meisho Tabaru could be the latest Japanese galloper to have a crack at the Cox Plate after his frontrunning win in the Group 1 Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin.

A Yutaka Take masterclass booked Meisho Tabaru a spot in the Cox Plate when taking out Sunday's Group 1 Takarazuka Kinen (2200m) in Japan. The legendary 56-year-old jockey took his mount ($11.40 shot) ...

Prognosis running in the 2024 Cox Plate (Image: Racing Photos) The winner of Sunday's Group 1 Takarazauka Kinen (2200m) in Japan will be given a subsidised invitation for this year's Cox Plate (2040m) ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology ...

Tectonic map of the Philippine Sea Plate, highlighting the different microplates that formed as a result of oceanic spreading at different spreading centers.

One of the most significant recent discoveries in plate tectonics is the confirmation of the Pontus plate, which once covered 15 million square miles—about a quarter of the Pacific Ocean.

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

A video of a California woman exploring a place where you can physically walk between two shifting tectonic plates has captivated viewers on TikTok. The clip of the rare geological wonder, which ...

Plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth’s crust, may have begun much earlier than previously thought—and may be a big reason that our planet harbors life ...