Earthquakes themselves affect the movement of Earth's tectonic plates, which in turn could impact on future earthquakes, according to new research from the University of Copenhagen. This new knowledge ...

WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico has felt hundreds of aftershocks after the Jan. 7 magnitude 6.4 earthquake. And throughout history, earthquakes are not an unheard-of occurrence on the island. This is because ...

September 2017 saw a pair of weird earthquakes in Mexico. A magnitude 8.2 on September 8 just offshore the state of Chiapas was followed by a magnitude 7.1 on September 19—this time much closer to ...

The edge of a tectonic plate, one of the massive shelves of crust that carry the continents and ocean’s floor, is splitting right down the middle. Scientists started to study the plate, located off ...

The earthquakes both struck at a shallow depth of approximately 10 kilometers, or about 6 miles below the surface.

The 8.2 magnitude earthquake that brought devastation and 98 deaths to southern Mexico in September 2017 was even more extreme than initially thought — it split the tectonic plate responsible for the ...

The West Coast of North America is a geologically tumultuous zone where tectonic plates collide, subducting under and ...

Rescuers and volunteers in Mexico City search for survivors amid the rubble and debris following the 2017 earthquake. Getty Images The 8.2 magnitude earthquake that brought devastation and 98 deaths ...

A groundbreaking study has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in Europe’s most seismically active regions. Researchers used advanced satellite data to track land ...

The state seismologists pointed out that the magnitude 7.4 earthquake that struck offshore Manay, Davao Oriental on Friday ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Thirty years after the Loma Prieta earthquake rocked the San Francisco Bay Area, killing 63 people, scientists have a chilling reminder: that quake was just a warm up. "The ...

One would assume the lithosphere would be lower-density than the asthenosphere. As the lithosphere tries diving into the layer below it wouldn't it want to float back to the top? Rather than the ...