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

Earth's crust is the planet's outermost ... and sometimes they push together at convergent boundaries. When plates come together at convergent boundaries, they often slide under each other ...

Formed at the convergent boundary where the Pacific Plate subducts beneath the Indo ... but also for grasping its role in regulating the Earth’s climate system.

There are currently five recognized oceans on Earth: the Pacific ... where two tectonic plates are separating (the opposite is a convergent boundary). This is exactly what happened when the ...

Their movement is driven by forces from the Earth’s interior such as increases or decreases ... There are three main types of plate boundaries: convergent, divergent, and transform. Convergent ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

New study reveals that Earth's inner core is undergoing unexpected structural changes, challenging long-held assumptions ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead ...