Plate boundaries are where the action is. A large fraction of all earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and mountain building occurs at plate boundaries. It is also where most of the people on Earth live.

A team of seismologists has assembled the most extensive map yet of deformation deep inside Earth, revealing that the warping ...

Tremors beneath Northern California show hidden plate movement, helping scientists better understand where future big ...

The solid ground that we all live on forms a thin crust around the Earth. It’s no more than 50km thick - and it’s just the upper part of the lithosphere. Below it is the upper mantle. It’s mostly ...

New scientific models mapping the Earth’s tectonic plates could help to sharpen our collective understanding of natural disasters like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, scientists have said. The ...

Volcanoes and earthquake activity often occur in similar places in narrow zones of activity, as shown on the map. These zones include: the Pacific Ring of Fire around the Pacific Ocean the ...

Some great ideas shake up the world. For centuries, the outermost layer of Earth was thought to be static, rigid, locked in place. But the theory of plate tectonics has rocked this picture of the ...