But the creature is very much real and was discovered at the junction of three tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean. Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute spotted the animal while using an ...

Instead of colliding head-on, the Pacific and Australian plates approach obliquely in the vicinity of New Zealand, leading to complex plate interactions ().On the South Island, both plates are ...

The map highlights in yellow the zones of the Pacific Plate that are being pulled apart by the sinking tectonic plate along the Pacific Ring of Fire.

To the west of the fault is the Pacific plate, which is moving northwest. To the east is the North American Plate, which is moving southeast. Los Angeles, located on the Pacific plate, is now 340 ...

Also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt, the Ring of Fire traces the meeting points of many tectonic plates, including the Eurasian, North American, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Caribbean, Nazca ...

Seismologists are monitoring an earthquake swarm that is continuing to develop off Alaska's Aleutian Island chain and includes several stronger quakes.

Geologists and earth science experts explain where Humboldt's 7.0 earthquake came from, and if a strong earthquake could happen in Shasta or Siskiyou.