A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck Monday off eastern Indonesia, the US Geological Survey said, but a monitor said there was ...

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) — ...

An earthquake measuring 6.9 magnitude on the Richter scale struck on Monday Maluku Province in Indonesia. The epicenter of ...

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 ...

"By simulating how the Earth's tectonic plates are expected to evolve using a supercomputer, we were able to show that in less than 300 million years' time it is likely to be the Pacific Ocean ...

JAKARTA: A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck on Monday (July 14) off eastern Indonesia, the US Geological Survey said, but a ...

Tectonic Plates Can ‘Infect’ One Another with Earth-Shaking Subduction Zones ... By 260 million years ago this subduction seems to have spread and begun pulling down the neighboring Pacific plate.