An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...

Why should one half of our world be losing its internal heat like a runny kettle, and the other retain it like a snug thermos ...

Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency swiftly issued 'no tsunami threat' advisory after 6.5-magnitude Papua earthquake.

Russia's massive quake has already triggered at least 10 aftershocks, and could continue for months, according to scientists.

The Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake may not have brought the same devastation as previous shocks, but a far more deadly seismic event is looming for the US West Coast.

Pacific Plate May Be Tearing At Its Core, Redefining Current Theories The Pacific plate's center seems to be riddled with large undersea faults, which goes against our current understanding Tom Hale ...

A volcano in the Pacific Ocean is making headlines as it shows signs of forming a new island. This geological phenomenon provides a unique opportunity for scientists to observe island formation in ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate has been brought back into view. In one of Earth's most tectonically ...

Tsunamis hit parts of Russia's far east and Japan after a huge magnitude 8.8 earthquake, with warnings in place around the Pacific of waves of over three metres in places.

Utrecht University geologist Suzanna van de Lagemaat has reconstructed a massive and previously unknown tectonic plate that was once one-quarter the size of the Pacific Ocean. Her colleagues in ...

But the Ring of Fire does this subduction on a massive scale. "What's special about the Ring of Fire is that multiple oceanic plates in the Pacific have subduction boundaries there," Loÿc ...