Taiwan close to Chiayi. Buildings in Taipei had modest damage as a result of the earthquake. All employees at TSMC's ...

After teaching fourth grade Oakwood Grade School for eight years, Tiffany Johnson has taken up a new challenge by moving to a ...

Pupils could design an illustrated information tourist poster or even a short booklet ... plates create mountain ranges Exploring how tectonic plate movement creates mountains where the plates ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

The researchers theorize that these far-off remnants could either be deposits of silica-rich material that have hung around ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

Constructive plate margins close constructive plate marginAn area where two tectonic plates are moving away from one another. are where tectonic plates pull apart due to convection currents in the ...

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

Almost everywhere, the ground is still shaking from a succession of tectonic events that are reshaping the geopolitical landscape, and continually producing foreshocks and aftershocks.

“The whole Tibetian plateau came out of the tectonic shift between the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate…This is the 6th big earthquake in the region in last one hundred years,” said ...