For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

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 ...

Dating key tectonic events in Japan's geological history has long been often challenging due to poor microfossil preservation from intense heat due to metamorphism. Researchers tackled this by using ...

Love is a burning thing, and it makes a fiery ring […] And it burns, burns, burns, the ring of fire; the ring of fire.” This ...

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

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...

On Tuesday, the agency held a news conference with the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. Officials said the quake originated where tectonic plates meet near the western edge of an area in ...

There have been no reports of damage linked to the tremor that happened on Monday, Jan. 13 A 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the southwestern part of Japan ... a part of the boundary between ...

A 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked the southwestern part of Japan on Monday, Jan. 13, prompting a tsunami advisory to be ...

Several of Japan's nuclear power plants were rattled ... the Philippine Sea Plate converges with the Eurasian Plate. This tectonic boundary marks the point where the oceanic Philippine Sea Plate ...

Takamine is a new whiskey made with koji, a mold that’s long been used in Japan for starting fermentation.Credit...Kosuke Okahara for The New York Times Supported by By Clay Risen One afternoon ...