Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone has stayed calm for 300 years. When it finally breaks, it could trigger a huge earthquake ...

The Great Dividing Range is one of the world’s longest and most fascinating mountain ranges, stretching across Australia from Queensland to Victoria. Unlike many mountain ranges that are the result of ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Scientists are warning that a 100-foot, Doomsday-style tsunami is primed to hit the US West Coast at any moment. Yet ...

A tectonic clash in Tibet formed giant copper deposits, revealing how recycled crust can power clean energy and reshape ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.