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 ...

Though this chain of seamounts seemed like a perfect record of Pacific plate movement, a strange bend in the chain, dated at about 47 million years ago, troubled some geologists.

Scientists had previously thought a sudden shift in the Pacific Plate’s movements over the magma-spewing hot spot produced the bend where the Emperor undersea mountain range connects to the ...

The Pacific tectonic plate is not as rigid as scientists believe, according to new calculations. ... On the local scale, these movements cover only inches per year and are hard to see.

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 ...

This zone separated the well-documented eastern Pacific plates from the now-confirmed Pontus plate. The research, published ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Pacific tectonic plate is not as rigid as scientists believe, according to new calculations by researchers at Rice University and the University of Nevada, Reno.