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

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

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 presents ...

The dispersion characteristics of a piezoelectric plate under the laser excitation are studied. The LAMB wave dispersion curves of the piezoelectric plate are calculated for both electrically open and ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

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 presents ...

Mantle plumes are important geologic processes—they interact with plate tectonics, create rich mineral deposits, and even ...

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

Earlier this year, Duarte published his own paper detailing how the Gibraltar Subduction Zone—where the African plate subducts beneath the Eurasian plate—is infecting the Atlantic.

Think of boundaries as the invisible fences that protect our peace and sanity. Yet, more often than not, we find ourselves ...

More than 900 earthquakes have struck Japan's remote Tokara Islands since June 21, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said ...

As part of Vietnam’s plan to reorganize administrative units at all levels, the Ministry of Public Security has issued ...