Earthquakes have shaped the planet’s geography and influenced human history in profound ways. Among these natural events, one ...

Our planet is constantly changing. Millions of years ago, the impact of a large meteorite ended the lives of the dinosaurs, and ice ages, periods of rain, drought and evolution hav ...

Solar heat may influence earthquakes and their timings by altering rock brittleness and underground water movement.

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

Plates can also move past each other, like at the San Andreas Fault in the USA, which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. These are known as ...

By applying thermoluminescence dating to newly formed dolomite minerals in fault structures, the team determined that tectonic activity in the region began approximately 2.7 million years ago.