Safety screenings of two nuclear reactors in central Japan’s Hamaoka nuclear power plant were reportedly fabricated.

Pangea may have vanished 200 million years ago, but it left a trail of clues in rocks, fossils, and even magnetic fields that ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Many of the state’s largest earthquakes have struck near the junction, where the Pacific, North American and Gorda plates ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...

Yet much about the landscape under the ice has been uncertain, because ground and air surveys are difficult in the region.

Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.

Seismologists have discovered hidden faults at the Mendocino Triple Junction by tracking tiny earthquakes using a new ...

Tectonics is the study of the structural geology of the Earth and other planetary bodies, and the local and regional processes that created that rock geometry. This includes the movements of the Earth ...