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 false-color satellite photo from 2023 shows a devilish pair of lava flows and an enormous plume of smoke spewing from Klyuchevskoy, the tallest volcano in Europe and Asia.

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

Manila: A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck Ilocos Norte province in the northern Philippines today. The Philippine Institute ...

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 ...

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 off eastern Indonesia, the US Geological Survey said, but a monitor said there was no tsunami threat.

"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 ...

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.