Earthquakes happen due to sudden movement of tectonic plates and stress release along fault lines beneath the Earth’s crust.
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 ...
The movement of tectonic plates may take millions of years, but in Northern Ethiopia, you can see it happen in real time. In ...
From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new modeling study published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, R. Dietmar ...
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