No audio available for this content. It’s the beginning of 2022 and the new, modernized NSRS is only about three years away. Hopefully, everyone has been reading NGS’s blueprint documents updated ...

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge for granted, this theory of plate tectonics was only formulated in the ...

A study finds that an ancient mountain belt formed 500-900 million years ago across the Arabian-Nubian Shield and Sahara Desert before the final collision of east and west Gondwana-Land. The origins ...

This 2015 article is getting some notice in the wake of a 4.8 magnitude quake west of Manhattan on April 5, 2024, a region not known for seismic activity. We have tips and resources below. It is clear ...

The Carrizo Plains provides good visibility of the San Andreas Fault in southern California. On Earth, the motion along faults is driven by plate tectonics, powered by convection of the planet’s ...

A groundbreaking study has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in Europe’s most seismically active regions. Researchers used advanced satellite data to track land ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

California won’t fall into the ocean, but it could get nudged hundreds of miles offshore, making Nevada the new coastline of the continent, scientists at the Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology at the ...

A new study introduces a novel way for tectonic plates — massive sheets of rock that jostle for position in the Earth’s crust and upper mantle — to bend and sink. It’s a bit of planetary Pilates that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Two large earthquakes have occurred in the early morning of ...

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