The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts ... volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's mantle ...

At the boundary between these two ... tectonic system stretching from southern Japan to New Zealand. This vast network of ...

These plates mash and grind together and trigger deadly earthquakes, like the 8.9-magnitude quake that struck on Friday (March 11). [Photos: Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in Pictures] The tectonic ...

A reappraisal of decades-old data suggests that strange circular formations on Venus could be volcanic “rings of fire” ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency announced that Thursday’s earthquake had a magnitude of 7.1 and was caused by a shift in the boundary between the two plates. It was smaller than the massive ...

Some geologists think it took a while for plate tectonics to emerge ... in Indonesia in 2004 and the magnitude 9.0 temblor in Japan in 2011 (SN: 5/2/2022). The study offers “some of the earliest ...

While Professor McKenzie is sometimes credited with discovering plate tectonics, and while he, Professor Morgan and Xavier Le Pichon, another tectonics pioneer, shared the prestigious Japan Prize ...

On 11 March 2011 a huge underwater earthquake happened off of the Japanese coast ... geography relating to geological timescales and plate tectonics.