The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history.

As the tectonic plates of geopolitics shift, an interesting development has been the relative stability and neutrality of the Gulf states, which have hosted peace talks on both Israel-Gaza and ...

Image: A building is damaged after the earthquake hit in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Pic: AP Over decades, as the plates grind past each other, tension builds up in the subsurface rock. Such strike-slip ...

Plate tectonic theory ... causing an earthquake. The plates of the Earth's crust are constantly moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue ...

A local geologist says the tectonic plate movement that caused last ... Myanmar sits where four plates are boundary together, so it's Indian plates, the Eurasian plates, the Sunda plates, and ...

GREENWATER, Wash. — A magnitude 3.8 earthquake struck western Washington Sunday morning, according to the U.S. Geological ...

Californians have long dreaded the 'Big One'. But growing fears of a deadly earthquake are no longer confined to just the ...

The earthquake, which occurred along the Sagaing Fault, is attributed to the movement of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates. According to the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) in ...

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. Continued ground uplift long after ...