Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest. To the east is the North American Plate, which is moving southeast. Los Angeles, located on the Pacific plate, is now 340 ...

Rogers Creek Fault is Waiting By David Bolling With the nation’s focus on the catastrophic wildfires in Los Angeles, the last ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca ...

Instead of colliding head-on, the Pacific and Australian plates approach obliquely in the vicinity of New Zealand, leading to complex plate interactions ().On the South Island, both plates are ...

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.

“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 ...