Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

Nepal is highly earthquake-prone due to its location on a convergent boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

The study revealed that an earthquake could occur along the Cascadia subduction zone — a 600-mile convergent plate boundary that extends from northern California to southern British Columbia.

They represent the least well-studied of the three major plate boundaries, which include divergent boundaries, like East Africa, where plates move apart forming new crust; and convergent ...

Earth's surface is divided into several tectonic plates, and earthquakes generally occur at convergent plate boundaries, where two or more tectonic plates collide. These tectonic plates are constantly ...

The type of plate boundary is determined by the relative motion of the plates where they meet. There are three types: convergent, divergent, or transform.

Editors' Highlights Skewed Subduction Shear Zones A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

Plate convergence can induce large-scale metamorphism and magmatism, reshape large parts of continental margins, and subsequently change regional climate and biodiversity. Metamorphic rocks in ...

Whereas Earth has plate tectonics, some other bodies — such as Mars, Mercury and Earth's moon — have what is called a stagnant lid.

But in convergent margins, the average magnitude of the 10 largest events is 8.5, roughly 32 times more energy than the other neotectonic settings. The large anomalous magnitudes of energy release in ...