Tectonic tips A new study of tectonic plate boundaries may help scientists understand how earthquakes happen. The work by researchers including Dr Giampiero Iaffaldano from the Australian National ...

When a powerful quake struck northern Chile in 2024, the damage did not match what scientists expected from its depth. The ...

A car crash-like collision between tectonic plates offshore of Colombia helps explain the region's unusual geology, a new study finds. Colombia sits at the complex junction of three small tectonic ...

Remember back in fourth grade when your mind was blown that the continents and oceans are all actually moving, very slowly, and that they used to be in different forms? The theory of plate tectonics ...

Aug. 14 (UPI) --A team of researchers from Rice University in Texas have discovered a new tectonic plate off the coast of Ecuador. There were 56 plates; now, there are 57 -- and researchers think ...

Misfit plates in the Pacific led scientists to the discovery of a microplate between the Galapagos Islands and the South American coast. A microplate discovered off the west coast of Ecuador adds ...

Geologists demonstrate the reconstruction of the subduction of the Nazca Ocean plate, the remnants of which are currently found down to 1,500 kilometers, or about 900 miles, below the Earth's surface.

I just returned home from an adventure in Ecuador, the highlight was two weeks on a boat exploring the Galápagos Islands. As an earth scientist, there’s always a geologic story wherever I visit, but ...