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

"It's pretty surreal to walk between two major pieces of Earth's crust that are drifting in different directions," Brooke ...

It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates. The plates fit together like jigsaw puzzle pieces far beneath our feet. Tectonic plates move - usually very slowly - and this broke Pangaea up ...

Normally, tsunamis are triggered by underwater earthquakes at a subduction zone, where tectonic plates move up or down on top of each other. However, the earthquake last Thursday occurred on the ...

The plates make up Earth's outer shell ... convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways in relation to each ...

So far, the search for extraterrestrial life has turned up nothing ... Dallas. “Plate tectonics jump-starts the evolution machine, and we think we understand why.” As the plates move, they ...

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as the East African Rift. Far from being a mere curiosity, this rift holds the ...

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent ... These continents are still on the move today. Exactly what drives plate tectonics is not known. One theory is that ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But do other planets in the solar system have them too?