A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia, the US Geological Survey said, but a monitor said there was no tsunami threat.

Whether that new divide counts as a boundary or not, the Pacific Plate is still the largest of all tectonic plates. It measures 39,768,522 square miles (103,000,000 square kilometers) in size, and ...

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck on Monday off eastern Indonesia, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, but a monitor said ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so big?Covering about 63 million square miles (163 million square kilometers) — ...

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

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck near Indonesia's Tanimbar Islands with no tsunami risks. At depths reported differently by ...

A powerful 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of eastern Indonesia late Monday night, but authorities confirmed ...

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 ...