Seismic data collected before the massive Hunga Tonga eruption in 2022 could point to a new kind of early warning system for ...

Learn more› By Daniela Galarza and Marguerite Preston For a truly stunning holiday pie, disposable aluminum pie plates just won’t cut it. And if you’re going through the effort of making a ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of ...

Many spectacular volcanoes are found along subduction zones, such as the "Ring of Fire" that surrounds the Pacific Ocean. When two oceanic plates converge, a deep trench forms, such as the Mariana ...

The Ring of Fire is a string of Pacific volcanoes. Eruptions are a constant threat for Indonesia and other nations ...

That's when the geological record reveals plentiful ophiolites — bits of oceanic crust shoved ... rocks that form in subduction zones, or areas where the plates collide and dive into the ...

The Phoenix plate breaks up around 120 Ma, and fragments are captured by the Farallon plate, which begins to subduct beneath South America. B: The model predicts an intra-oceanic subduction zone where ...

A trivia question: can you name the largest country without an active volcano? Here ‘active’ includes ‘dormant’: it is about volcanoes that have access to live magma and could in principle erupt, even ...

Gauteng’s transport department has been quiet on its plan to launch new number plates for vehicles in the province, a project which has already faced several delays. The latest news came from ...