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.

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 ...

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

The Pacific "Ring of Fire" is a seismically active zone encircling the Pacific Ocean, where frequent earthquakes and numerous ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

More It's created by the Pacific tectonic plate sinking below the North American plate and is the most seismically and volcanically active zone in the world, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

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 ...

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 ...