Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

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Deep beneath Northern California’s rugged coastline, scientists have mapped a tangle of hidden faults that could generate earthquakes as powerful as magnitude 8. The newly identified hotspot sits ...

Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet some of these giant structures vanished deep into the mantle, hidden from ...

The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the grinding edge of any modern tectonic plate boundary. For decades, geologists tried ...