With Australia's most significant earthquake disaster occurring more than 35 years ago, many people consider quakes to be quite rare in Australia. But it turns out they're more common than you'd think ...

New Jersey experiences earthquakes due to the fault line running through the state. Here is the science behind the cause and ...

Things grow more complicated when you look at plate boundaries, where plate tectonics causes plates to splinter into smaller fragments called microplates.

This layer is a part of the asthenosphere, which sits beneath the tectonic plates. The asthenosphere exists as a soft layer of solid but malleable rock that can cause the tectonic plates to move ...

Earth’s crust crashes into itself and pulls apart Earthquakes are part of the normal behavior of the Earth. They occur with the movement of the tectonic plates that form the outer layer of the ...

After analyzing the ages of kimberlites and the degree of plate fragmentation occurring at those times, scientists now believe the break-up of supercontinents is what causes these huge, diamond ...

Scientists have uncovered one of the most exciting geological discoveries of the decade – the long-lost Pontus tectonic plate. This ancient “mega plate,” which once spanned an astonishing 15 ...

This layer is a part of the asthenosphere, which sits beneath the tectonic plates. The asthenosphere exists as a soft layer of solid but malleable rock that can cause the tectonic plates to move ...