Data by the United States Geological Survey has produced a horrifying map which shows the extent of an earthquake in Myanmar ...
An earthquake is extremely destructive if it occurs shallow in the Earth's crust and near population centres - Friday's earthquake in Myanmar did both.
Yet, many of the most popular holiday destinations among British tourists are home to the most active volcanoes in the world ... the Eurasian and African tectonic plates. The most famous volcanoes ...
NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean ...
Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the ... moving at about the same speed as your fingernails grow, so the map of the world will continue to change, but just very, very, very slowly.
Earthquakes are relatively common in Myanmar, where six strong quakes of 7.0 magnitude or more struck between 1930 and 1956 ...
Scotese studies how plate tectonics and a warming climate will change Earth's appearance in the future, and he has made multiple animated maps based from his research. For more animations from ...