Kamchatsky, a coastal city in Russia's Far East, at 11:24 pm Indian time on July 29. The earthquake area falls in the ...

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.

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

It seems that for the size of the earthquake, the tsunami has been rather small. To understand why, we can look to geology.

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

Millions of people were evacuated, as minds cast back to the devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 in the Indian Ocean and ...

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 ...

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 ...