Guatemala earthquake kills four and damages dozens of homes. Residents remain on edge after hundreds of aftershocks and ...

The 8.2 magnitude earthquake that brought devastation and 98 deaths to southern Mexico in September 2017 was even more extreme than initially thought — it split the tectonic plate responsible ...

But what exactly are tectonic plates, and how many are there? What are tectonic plates? Earth, like an onion and everyone’s favorite ogre, has layers.

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 ...

Here’s how it works. Here we see some of the major and minor tectonic plates on Earth today. (Image credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus) Billions of years ago, Earth's surface was a sea of molten ...

Scientists unearth 20 million years of 'hot spot' magmatism under Cocos plate Date: June 20, 2023 Source: Georgia Institute of Technology Summary: A team of scientists has observed past episodic ...

These plate remains were found lurking underneath the center of other continental plates, far from tectonic boundaries, according to a new paper in the journal Scientific Reports.

According to the National Seismological Service, five tectonic plates interact in Mexico: North America, Cocos, Pacific, Rivera and the Plate of the Caribbean ...

A team of scientists led by Georgia Tech have observed past episodic intraplate magmatism and corroborated the existence of a partial melt channel at the base of the Cocos Plate. Situated 60 ...

Think Hawaii, where “a mantle plume of hot, rising material melts during its ascent, and then forms the Hawaii volcanic chain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean,” just as with the Cocos Plate, where ...