Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the planet.

In a groundbreaking study published in Science Advances (2025), scientists uncovered a fascinating and unusual process occurring deep beneath the Pacific Northwest. For the first time, a subduction ...

Pacific Ring of Fire location makes the eastern regions highly vulnerable to megathrust earthquakes. Recent 2025 events include the 8.8-magnitude July quake and the 7.4-magnitude September aftershock.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck near the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka peninsula on Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey. The US Tsunami warning system issued a threat following the ...

Mojtaba Rajabi leads the Australian Stress Map project and serves as deputy head of the World Stress Map project. His research on Australia’s stress field is supported by the Australian Research ...

A study published in the journal Tectonics has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in Europe's most seismically active regions. Researchers used advanced satellite data ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. NBA 2K26 is getting a major upgrade to ProPlay, the enhanced animation system available only on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC. 2K ...

Santa Barbara’s waterfront played host to history this past weekend as members of the storied Explorers Club gathered to honor Dr. Robert Fisher — a pioneering oceanographer who, at 100 years old, is ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

Seismic symphonies of minor earthquakes may affect grand movements on major faults. Small and distant earthquakes can disrupt the growth of slow-slip events — gradual fault movements that can release ...