Millions of people were evacuated, as minds cast back to the devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 in the Indian Ocean and ...

The quake occurred on a fault line running along the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench - a scar on the seabed caused by the Pacific ...

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...

Creatures that lurk more than 9000 metres deep in the Pacific Ocean get their nutrients from a surprising source ...

A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland ...

The origins of plate tectonics on Earth are hotly debated, but evidence from Australia now shows that parts of the crust ...

Researchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic ...

Plate tectonics allows heat from Earth's interior to escape to the surface, forming continents and other geological features necessary for life to emerge. Accordingly, "there has been the ...

The research provides chemical evidence that plate tectonics was most likely occurring more than 4.2 billion years ago when life is thought to have first formed on our planet.

If the solar system’s hottest world, once had plate tectonics, maybe it was also capable of sustaining life long ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Earth-like plate tectonics may have shaped Venus billions of years ago A new study bolsters the theory that microbial life could have existed on our sister planet. Laura Baisas Oct 27, 2023 11:00 ...