A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck Nepal on Tuesday, as reported by the National Center for Seismology. The earthquake, occurring at a depth of 25km, highlights Nepal's vulnerability as the 11th most ...

Nepal was jolted by a magnitude 4.0 ​earthquake Tuesday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said.​ There ...

These trenches mark areas where continental plates collide in what are known as convergent ... and destroyed via subduction. Before these discoveries, plate tectonics had foundered as a theory ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

Mid-ocean ridge basalts (MORBs), located far from subduction zones, are typically thought to be unaffected by subduction ...