Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

The powerful earthquake that rocked the seabed off the Northern California coast near Eureka on Saturday underscores the complexity of seismic dangers within the Earth's crust, and is likely to be ...

Despite the steady movement, Hawaii won’t reach Japan for another 63 million years.While the Pacific Plate’s movement remains ...

Though this chain of seamounts seemed like a perfect record of Pacific plate movement, a strange bend in the chain, dated at about 47 million years ago, troubled some geologists.

The Pacific tectonic plate is not as rigid as scientists believe, according to new calculations. ... On the local scale, these movements cover only inches per year and are hard to see.

Numerical mechanical models showed that variations in movement of the Pacific plate, generating shearing stresses within it, could facilitate the rise of magma towards the surface.

New modeling from researchers at Curtin University has simulated 300 million years of tectonic plate movement to predict the formation of a supercontinent called Amasia. The modeling estimates the ...

Pacific Plate movement direction (Credit: GeologyCafe.com) This movement will continue to drag parts of California with it northward. However, the plate boundary follows the western coast of North ...

Scientists had previously thought a sudden shift in the Pacific Plate’s movements over the magma-spewing hot spot produced the bend where the Emperor undersea mountain range connects to the ...

The oldest part of the Pacific Plate dates back 190 million years and is triangle-shaped. That shape led scientists to postulate that the Pacific Plate formed at a convergence of three other plates.

The tectonic plate that dominates the Pacific “Ring of Fire” is not as rigid as many... Pacific plate shrinking as it cools Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

The tectonic plate that dominates the Pacific “Ring of Fire” is not as rigid as many scientists assume, according to researchers at Rice University and the University of Nevada. Rice ...