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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

"Plate tectonics and the Pangea supercontinent suggest that continents move and break up over (extremely long) periods of time due to convection from the decay of radioactive elements in the ...

Stern says that plate tectonics “jump-starts the evolutionary machine.” As the plates move, they create oceans ... Tectonics indirectly also sped up the creation of oxygen in our atmosphere.