Solar-driven temperature shifts alter rock properties and underground water movement, potentially making the Earth’s crust ...

The Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, though at a pace so slow we rarely notice. But if we fast-forward 250 million ...

Incorporating solar activity predictions into detailed Earth temperature models may improve seismic forecasts and save lives.

Scientists have observed that the Australian continent is moving north at a rate of 7 cm per year. This gradual shift, caused by plate tectonics, is expected to lead to a collision with Asia in the ...

Though this is not the first study to estimate past sea level changes on the basis of shifting plate tectonic speeds, it covers a more recent period at a finer resolution and with greater ...

In the Himalayan region, major seismic activity takes place on a roughly 100-year cycle, experts told Dawn ... monitoring the movements of tectonic plates. Pakistan falls on three major tectonic ...

These findings have important implications for understanding strain energy distribution and perhaps dissipation minimization within the plate tectonic system. While a comprehensive theory is still ...

A team of researchers led by Dr. Frank Zwaan, a scientist in the Geodynamic Modeling section at GFZ Helmholtz Center for Geosciences, present an answer to this question: using plate tectonic ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

A new ocean is being created in East Africa through changes in the tectonic plates -- huge segments of the Earth’s crust that move on top of the semi-fluid mantle underneath -- in the Afar ...

Massive mantle formations, called LLSVPs, have been found to be over a billion years old. These structures, sitting 3,000 km beneath the surface, slow seismic waves, indicating unique physical and ...

There is a difference. It was not a plate tectonic earthquake, it was due to in-situ material heterogeneity, it was due to local effect,” Mr. Mishra said. In-situ material heterogeneity means it ...