Witness Turkey's breathtaking geological upheaval as colossal fissures and fault lines emerge, clearly visible from orbit.

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Take yourself back to fifth-grade science for a second. You might have learned that earthquakes are caused by the sudden movement of big, underground sheets of rock, called tectonic plates. Your ...

The tectonic plates are among the most powerful forces on Earth, exerting tremendous influence over every single life that unfolds on this planet. They are both creators and destroyers, capable of ...

This 2015 article is getting some notice in the wake of a 4.8 magnitude quake west of Manhattan on April 5, 2024, a region not known for seismic activity. We have tips and resources below. It is clear ...

BANGKOK: Earthquakes in Surat Thani are caused by two active fault lines that are still moving—Ranong Fault and Klong Marui Fault.

The earthquakes that ripped across southern Turkey and northern Syria in the small hours of February 6th were among the most devastating of this century. Within three days of the disaster, the ...

Kathleen M. Reilly, illus. by Chad Thompson. Nomad (IPG, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-61930-465-9 Reilly provides a detailed examination of the movements of tectonic plates, and the ...

Scientists have reconstructed a long-lost tectonic plate that may have given rise to an arc of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean 60 million years ago. The plate, dubbed Resurrection, has long been ...