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

Figure 1: A complex plate boundary region. Topographic and bathymetric map of the New Zealand region showing the important tectonic features (background image courtesy of US Geological Survey).

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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 ...

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

What’s more, the study is giving scientists a peek into the final moments of a tectonic plate’s life. The Juan de Fuca is one of the few remaining fragments of the once mighty Farallon plate ...

The Virunga chain is part of the East African Rift Valley system, which marks the boundary between two plates: the Nubian plate to the west and the Somalian plate to the east.

Now, new research reveals how this baby subduction zone came to be: Over millions of years, a bit of the "hidden" continent of Zealandia on the boundary between the Australian and Pacific plates ...

The plate boundary between Africa and the Iberian Peninsula could cause large tsunamis, according to a new study published recently in Nature Communications. Due to a lack of data, the studies ...

At north, widely recognized plate boundary (Sorol Trough) did not seem to extend to the Yap Trench. “We may hold the key to evolution of Caroline Plate after its oceanic spreading,” Zhang says.