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

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 ...

The Earth is made up of different layers: Therefore, instead of tectonic plates moving because of the convection currents, evidence suggests it is the plates that drive the convection. Slab pull ...

New findings provide a greater understanding of plate subduction, or how tectonic plates slide beneath one another. This recycling of surface materials and volatile elements deep into the Earth's ...

Pressure from a pool of magma has just cracked solid rock, creating a volcano-tectonic (VT) event. This type of quake produces relatively high-frequency shaking, usually between one and five ...

It is the only place in the world where you can swim between two tectonic plates. Produced by Claudia Romeo Latest videos The Silfra fissure in Iceland is the crack between North America and Europe.

"It's wild to think that in some ways tectonic plates have a 'memory' and that affects the way the plates drive mantle convection and mix material back into Earth," said Dr. Nick Harmon ...