In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

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

Ethiopia's Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological ...

After teaching fourth grade Oakwood Grade School for eight years, Tiffany Johnson has taken up a new challenge by moving to a ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

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are where tectonic plates pull apart due to convection currents ... The oceanic plate is denser than the continental plate. As they move together, the oceanic plate is forced underneath the ...

Geophysicists find areas that resemble the results of tectonic plate collisions — far from any area of such activity.