The powerful earthquake that rocked the seabed off the Northern California coast near Eureka on Saturday underscores the complexity of seismic dangers within the Earth's crust, and is likely to be ...

Despite the steady movement, Hawaii won’t reach Japan for another 63 million years.While the Pacific Plate’s movement remains ...

New modeling from researchers at Curtin University has simulated 300 million years of tectonic plate movement to predict the formation of a supercontinent called Amasia. The modeling estimates the ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is a tectonically active region with frequent earthquakes and volcanoes, spanning 40,000 km around ...

In a development that could reshape our understanding of tectonic movement, scientists have found massive fractures forming inside the Pacific Plate– the biggest tectonic plate on Earth. The ...

Whether that new divide counts as a boundary or not, the Pacific Plate is still the largest of all tectonic plates. It measures 39,768,522 square miles (103,000,000 square kilometers) in size, and ...

The Caribbean region can be seen as a kind of natural laboratory in which, over millions of years, plate tectonics resulted in the transfer of a subduction zone from the Pacific to the Atlantic ...

This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions, and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault lines. 4:46 The Ring of Fire is home to the ...

The Pacific plate, the largest tectonic plate, constitutes most of the Pacific Ocean floor, stretching along the west coast of North America up to Alaska. At the western edge, it runs from Japan ...

Discover the secrets of the dinosaur-era superstructure in the Pacific Ocean that is still forming. Learn about the Melanesian Border Plateau, its volcanic rocks enriched in rare elements, and its ...