A breakthrough study has provided the most detailed 3D look yet at the inner workings of the Tonga Subduction Zone, where ...

High-Resolution Anisotropic Tomography Reveals Mantle Flow Complexity and Slab-Plume Interactions, Redefining Subduction Zone ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Frank Zwaan, a scientist in the Geodynamic Modeling section at GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences, present an answer to this question: using plate tectonic ...

A lowland area, or ‘rift valley’, appears where tectonic plates move away from each other, according to National Geographic. For millions of years, the Arabian plate has slowly, but surely ...

There is a difference. It was not a plate tectonic earthquake, it was due to in-situ material heterogeneity, it was due to local effect,” Mr. Mishra said. In-situ material heterogeneity means it ...

A 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Delhi, with an epicenter near Dhaula Kuan, was caused by regional geological variations rather than plate tectonics, according to experts. The shallow depth led to strong ...

The 4.0 magnitude earthquake had its epicentre at Jheel Park region near Dhaula Kuan and the shallow focal depth made citizens in nearby areas hear loud sounds as the earth shifted slightly this ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

It has vast water oceans and abundant life. But Earth is also unique because it is the only planet with plate tectonics, which shaped its geology, climate and possibly influenced the evolution of ...