Scientists expect a major earthquake in northern Chile soon Chile's north holds major copper and lithium production sites GPS technology helps monitor tectonic plate movements in Chile SANTIAGO, Feb ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

"Why is Earth the only rocky planet to have plate tectonics?" said Qian Yuan, lead author of that paper and a postdoctoral fellow in geodynamics at the California Institute of Technology.

Plate tectonics, the theory that underpins ... Taras Gerya, a professor of Earth sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

At first glance, landscapes like the Great Plains and the Rockies may seem unchanging, but over geological time scales, ...

Plate tectonics is the theory that Earth's outer layer is made up of plates, which have moved throughout Earth's history. The theory explains the how and why behind mountains, volcanoes ...

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...

Implementation of the project will make it possible to monitor the velocity of annual flow of tectonic plates underlying ... Infrastructure has developed a technology of ongoing digital monitoring ...

For decades, seismologists have worked to understand and predict earthquakes, but forecasting remains elusive. Now, ...