Silfra Fissure in Iceland, located in Þingvellir National Park, offers a unique opportunity to swim or snorkel between the ...

Is Iceland calling ... Else Like snorkeling between two continents in the Silfra fissure. Seriously—you’re swimming between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates.

The 16 newly designated geoparks are located in China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea –marking its first geopark and ...

A century after Mallet, an explanation for what causes earthquakes was finally found with the discovery of plate tectonics ... “earthquake gap” opening up between the East and West.

NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries, having experienced major quakes like the 1994 Northridge event. A strong but shallow earthquake with a ...

Earthquakes strike when tectonic plates, the large rocks making up the Earth’s crust, rub against each other. The USGS says the Myanmar quake occurred due to “strike slip faulting” between ...

as if rocks had been breaking deep underground (this is what is often felt when tectonic plates shift). We were probably very close to the epicentre." Many other people also wrote online after ...