Earth’s surface is constantly shifting, shaped by the slow but powerful movement of tectonic plates. While some plates have persisted for hundreds of millions of years, others have vanished, sinking ...

Discover the science behind Hawaii's gradual shift towards Japan, why it's happening, and how fast these changes are taking ...

A study found that tectonic plates beneath the Chishima Trench are not slipping past each other but appear to be locked ...

Instead, sections of the plates appear to be joined together but that when they do inevitably break free, a huge amount of ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that ... volcanoes that eventually build up into island arcs like Japan. At divergent boundaries in the oceans, magma from deep in the Earth's ...

A Japanese government panel also predicted that an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 could occur near the trench within 30 ...

I’m a mountain gal, and my connection to the ocean is usually limited to what I find on a dinner plate, but I felt something ... and with it, the earth under my feet and the world around me ...

A research team in Japan has warned that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan has become large ...