Scientists predict the Pacific Ocean will vanish in 200 million years, forming a new supercontinent named Amasia and ...

Rescue workers waded through rubble strewn across the ruins in the aftermath of the earthquake, footage showed, while some ...

A hotspot that now lies in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean was once under the Great Lakes, and may explain why they formed ...

Continents and oceans have scientific definitions that underpin international law. The idea of dividing the world into ...

Five countries with the most active volcanoes include Chile, Japan, Russia, Indonesia, and the USA. These nations' volcanic ...

“Generational change is an important factor in the shifting political tectonic plates we are seeing. People want jobs and dignity — you can’t eat memories,” said Cheeseman, who researches ...

One after another, a series of storms will slam into Northern California and the Pacific Northwest over the next week. Five separate systems are forecast to form, and each may bring a unique blend ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A search expanded on Thursday for those killed or trapped alive by an earthquake in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, as rescue workers arriving from abroad ...

This KS2 download contains a detailed medium-term plan about tectonic plates plus all the resources you need to teach it. When we think of natural disasters, we think of bright orange eruptions of ...

Advertising Perched on the Pacific ring of fire – a belt of tectonic plates and volcanoes – Vanuatu is regularly jolted by earthquakes, though none in living memory as large as Tuesday’s.

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Its position on a subduction zone — where the Indo-Australia tectonic plate moves beneath the Pacific Plate — means earthquakes of greater than magnitude 6 are not uncommon and the country’s ...