Just days after eastern Connecticut experienced a series of minor earthquakes, Yale University announced Yale-led research may have solved the mystery of why tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s ...

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The plate tectonics that determine the shape of our continents may have ...

researchers have uncovered the oldest direct evidence of tectonic plate movement, dating back 3.5 billion years. This revelation, published in Science, challenges long-held assumptions about Earth’s ...

A group of Earth scientists led by Utrecht University has created an online tool that shows where any place on Earth was located hundreds of millions of years ago. Using a refined geological ...

A groundbreaking study has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in Europe’s most seismically active regions. Researchers used advanced satellite data to track land ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The vast stretch of ocean between the Americas and Europe may be about ...

Researchers in China and Australia have created an animation that details Earth's tectonic movements over the past 1.8 billion years. In just over a minute, the video offers a mesmerizing look at how ...

The Central Mediterranean occupies a complex junction between the converging Eurasian and African plates, punctuated by microplates and small oceanic fragments. Since the Late Oligocene, subduction of ...

The Eastern Mediterranean region lies at the confluence of the African, Arabian and Eurasian plates, linked by a network of transform faults, pull-apart basins and subduction zones. Central to this ...