Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Two Buried Supercontinents Under Africa and the Pacific Ocean Could Be Much Older Than Previously Assumed Earth has several ...

The long-ignored continent of Zealandia has now been mapped and officially recognized as Earth’s eighth continent. Stretching over 4.9 million square kilometers, most of Zealandia lies beneath the ...

There are few places in the U.S. with a tougher housing market than Los Angeles, meaning there are few places where the ...

Day to day, most people can safely ignore that New Zealand rests along the boundary between the Indo-Australian and Pacific tectonic plates. But nature has a way of asserting itself. At 12:51 p.m. on ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be. These massive slabs, part of the lithosphere, meet at their edges where all the ...

The large blue area in the western Pacific (right above the center of the image) was not known until now. According to this model, submerged tectonic plates should be found near subduction zones, ...

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake jolted San Francisco, Southern Leyte on Thursday morning, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). In its updated bulletin, PHIVOLCS ...