"These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth—Antarctica." ...

The boundary where the two plates meet is called a convergent boundary. Deep trenches appear at these boundaries, caused by the oceanic plate bending downward into the Earth. Deep below the Earth ...

These plates can be oceanic, meaning they're found mainly under the ocean, or continental, and mainly found under land. And they are moved around, constantly fuelled by energy from the very hot ...

Many earthquakes in Washington state are linked to the motion of the Juan de Fuca Plate and the North American Continental ...

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough ...

This earthquake is larger than much of the recent seismic activity around western Washington, according to initial reports.

Continental plates are usually quite thick (between 35 to 70 km) compared to the much thinner oceanic plates (between 5 and 10 km). The oceanic rocks are usually made from basalt, while ...