Tibet may be tearing in two beneath the rising Himalayas, with pieces of the continental plate peeling off like the lid off a tin of fish, researchers have discovered. According to new research ...

• Due to a lack of data, the studies available so far underestimated the seismic and tsunami risk of these large faults. A new study led by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona and ...

The Iberian Peninsula — that massive piece of Europe holding Spain and Portugal — is not the static landmass we imagine. It’s ...

A massive collision between the Indian tectonic plate and the Eurasian tectonic plate is causing the Himalayas to grow, but new research suggests it might also be ripping Tibet apart. According to new ...

The Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe, occupied by Spain and Portugal, is rotating clockwise, a recent study based on an analysis of interactions between the Eurasian and African tectonic ...

I just returned home from an adventure in Ecuador, the highlight was two weeks on a boat exploring the Galápagos Islands. As an earth scientist, there’s always a geologic story wherever I visit, but ...

The emergence of plate tectonics in the late 1960s led to a paradigm shift from fixism to mobilism of global tectonics, providing a unifying context for the previously disparate disciplines of Earth ...

Transform boundaries neither create nor consume crust. Rather, two plates move against each other, building up tension, then releasing the tension in a sudden and often violent jerk. This sudden jerk ...