Gather your supplies! In this episode we will use everyday materials to learn about tectonic plates and fault lines.

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...

“Myanmar is an area often exposed to large earthquakes, with over 14 earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 or above occurring in the region over the last 100 years, including a magnitude 6.8 earthquake ...

The plate belonged to a region where two major tectonic realms—the Tethyan and Panthalassa—once interacted, creating a ...

This is called a destructive or convergent plate boundary. When the plates collide, the denser plate, usually the oceanic one, is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this ...

Abstract: The western boundary of the Philippine Sea (PH) Plate ... two opposing rotations on either side of the left-lateral Philippine Fault, clockwise to the southwest and counterclockwise to the ...

occur in both continental and oceanic lithosphere. Composite plates are composed of two or more rigid, or nearly rigid, component plates separated by one or more diffuse plate boundaries (Royer & ...