Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...

The map highlights in yellow the zones of the Pacific Plate that are being pulled apart by the sinking tectonic plate along the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Surprises emerge as scientists map the tectonic plate that could cause ‘The Big One’ by James Risley on November 12, 2015 at 10:03 am Share 1 Tweet Share Reddit Email ...

The July 30 earthquake occurred due to tensions along the subduction faultline between the Pacific and the Okhotsk tectonic ...

Geoscientists have discovered great geologic faults on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, further refining the theory of plate tectonics. The faults result from forces pulling the Pacific plate as it ...

KS3 Geography. Plate tectonics: Earthquakes. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and earthquakes and featuring case studies from Haiti and New Zealand.

The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...

For more than 15 years, UB geologist Margarete Jadamec has studied the Alaskan subduction zone, where two huge pieces of the Earth’s rigid outer layer — the North American Plate and the Pacific Plate ...

Figure 1: A complex plate boundary region. Topographic and bathymetric map of the New Zealand region showing the important tectonic features (background image courtesy of US Geological Survey).

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Margarete Jadamec, a University at Buffalo expert on Alaskan plate tectonics, is available to discuss the 7.0 earthquake in the Anchorage area, and how the region’s unique geology ...