Beneath the Afar region's vast landscape in Ethiopia, scientists have discovered a powerful geological force that is ...

Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

"This has profound implications for how we interpret surface volcanism, earthquake activity and the process of continental ...

Earthquakes typically occur at the boundaries of tectonic plates, where one plate dips below another, thrusts another upward, or where plate edges scrape alongside each other.

A giant crack in the heart of the Great Rift Valley Since 2005, the Great Rift Valley region, at the junction of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia, has been undergoing a dramatic transformation. A fissure ...

In East Africa's Afar Depression, scientists have discovered that fresh lava from deep within the Earth's mantle is driving the continent's split. The ...

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.

Manila: A 5.5 magnitude earthquake struck Ilocos Norte province in the northern Philippines today. The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and ...

A new study has provided a major update on why Africa is being split into two. The rift has been happening gradually for around two decades when a 35-mile-long fissure was spotted in Ethiopia's desert ...

While tectonic plates move very slowly—about as fast as your fingernails —when they push or slide past each other, the build-up and then sudden release of energy can cause devastating earthquakes.

The stress and strain produced by moving tectonic plates during such an event may trigger a chemical reaction that causes minuscule particles of gold to coalesce into larger nuggets, a new study ...

Terrifying footage has emerged from March's Myanmar earthquake showing the ground literally sliding either side of two tectonic plates. The astonishing video clip, originally uploaded to Facebook ...