Nepal is highly earthquake-prone due to its location on a convergent boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

In the 2001 film "Tortilla Soup," an argument between three sisters culminates in one smashing a plate on the kitchen floor.

According to seismological experts, quakes were driven by natural tectonic activity along the Indian-Eurasian plate boundary, specifically associated with the Landhi Fault Line in Karachi. Pakistan’s ...

Southern California is seismically active due to its location on tectonic plate boundaries, having experienced major quakes like the 1994 Northridge event.

KS3 Geography. Plate tectonics: Tsunamis. A short video for 11-14 year old pupils, exploring tectonic activity and tsunamis and featuring a case study from Japan including the Fukushima nuclear ...

Alfred Wagner proposed a theory in 1912 that paved the way for plate tectonics. Wagner’s concept of continental drift was used to explain what happened when the supercontinent of Pangaea broke ...

Surprisingly, geologists don't have a good answer for when plate tectonics emerged, and estimates range from 700 million years ago to before 4 billion years ago, when Earth was still in its ...

And that new plume material is constantly being supplied under the plate to form new volcanoes.” But in that case, old bits of the plume, with the old zircons, should have been carried off by those ...

The data, presented at a conference in 1966 by Sykes, showed that continental drift—now known as plate tectonics—was indeed occurring. “It was recognized right then and there, and by a ...

This process, called plate tectonics, is responsible for earthquakes, volcanoes, ocean ridges and vast mountain ranges on Earth's surface. We know that other rocky bodies, such as Venus , are ...

The plate tectonics that determine the shape of our continents may have originated from a huge impact billions of years ago. This huge collision with the Earth, thought to have occurred around 4.5 ...