Tag: Plate Tectonics

Credit: Felix Vaux A University of Otago study has revealed how earthquake upheaval has affected New Zealand's coastal species. Lead ...

Credit: © Cornée et al. Fossils of land animals from South America have been found in the Antilles, but how ...

Ancient zircons from the jack hills of western Australia hone date of an event that was crucial to making the ...

Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington When the Big One hits, the first thing Washington residents notice may not be the ...

Study highlights missing factors or mismodelling in global risk assessmentsCredit: NTU Singapore A 'slow-motion' earthquake lasting 32 years - the ...

Scientists find a new way to tell ages of the stones, and what made themCredit: Yaakov Weiss Diamonds are sometimes ...

Credit: Virginia Tech In a newly published paper, Virginia Tech geoscientists have found that shallow wastewater injection -- not deep ...

Credit: Vicki Daniels, Geophysical Institute The Alaska Science Pod was created to give voice to the people tackling big scientific ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. --A new study found overlooked tsunami hazards related to undersea, near-shore strike-slip ...

This threatens with sudden destruction of coastal cities and numerous human casualtiesCredit: UrFU / Grigory Tkachenko An international team of ...

Credit: IOCAS Earthquakes and volcanoes in subduction zones may cause great human catastrophe. Previous studies on subduction zone structure and ...

Credit: Michael Kendall/ University of Oxford At the Seismological Society of America's 2021 Annual Meeting, researchers shared how they are ...

Hidden structures reveal 13 million years of seafloor spreadingCredit: GEOMAR It is 2,250 kilometers long, but only 355 kilometers wide ...

Credit: Image courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Volcanic eruptions deep in our oceans are capable of extremely ...