Earth surface is covered with rigid plates that move, crash into each other and dive into the planet's interior. But when did ...

THESSALONIKI, Greece -- A 5.2-magnitude tremor hit northern Greece Sunday evening, authorities said. The earthquake occurred offshore from the Chalkidiki peninsula, about 40 kilometers southeast of ...

The Earth doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we're taught that the world consists of Africa, ...

No Damages to Properties or Injuries. However, Residents Are Fearful That a Larger Quake May Hit After Three Back-to-Back ...

There are moments when the tectonic plates of history shift beneath our feet and Europe is violently remade. It is time to recognise that we are at such a moment. Time too, to stop saying that it ...

Iceland is a country of fire and ice, home to several volcanoes and straddling two tectonic plates. The Eyjafjallajokull volcano began erupting in March. On 14 April, the eruption entered a new ...

The movement of the plates creates three types of tectonic boundaries: convergent, where plates move into one another; divergent, where plates move apart; and transform, where plates move sideways ...

The Gorringe seamount, located 200 kilometres off the Portuguese coast in the Atlantic Ocean, is the tallest underwater ...

Scientists believe shifting tectonic plates are leading to the creation of a new ocean, the world's sixth. The geological development results from two land masses slowly moving apart in Africa.

Geography KS2. UK locations. Mountains. How tectonic plates create mountain ranges. Volcanoes. Mount Snowdon - the tallest peak in Wales. BBC Teach.

With terrain shaped by volcanic eruptions and shifting tectonic plates and the surrounding waters filled with glaciers, ...

For the last 25 million years, a gradual split has been widening within the African tectonic plate, creating two distinct ...