According to a new study, published in Nature Geoscience, the approximately 37-mile long Cocos plate split apart in a few seconds and released exorbitant amounts of energy. "We find that the ...

The Tehauntepec quake involved the Cocos plate, which is a relatively young 25 million years old and is somewhat warmer than plenty of other tectonic plates. That, according to Melgar, makes the ...

Reconstructing the structure of the area underlying the Cocos plate, the researchers were able to spot a slab of material that was nearly 700°C cooler than its surroundings, which created a phase ...

Off the coast of Nicaragua, beneath the Cocos tectonic plate, researchers discovered a 15-mile-thick (25 kilometers) layer of partially melted rock at the bottom of the lithosphere.

If you just count the major and minor plates as tectonic plates, that would bring the total up to 15. But before we get too comfy with that total, there’s a new kid in town – the microplate .

Tectonic plates can spread subduction like a contagion — jumping from ... "In addition to the seven very large [plates], there are five more somewhat smaller ones: Philippine Sea, Cocos ...

A team of scientists has observed past episodic intraplate magmatism and corroborated the existence of a partial melt channel at the base of the Cocos Plate. Situated 60 kilometers beneath the ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Tectonic plates ; Possible Sunken Worlds Revealed by High Resolution Models of Earth. Published Jan 08, 2025 at 10:56 AM EST Updated Jan 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM EST. By . Jess ...

According to the SSN, five tectonic plates interact in the Mexican Republic: the North American, Cocos, Pacific, Rivera and Caribbean plates.This caused, at least in 2017 after the earthquake of ...