Joint preliminary assessment report by Türkiye's AFAD and Mineral Research and Exploration General Directorate says number of ...

Santorini’s beauty hides a geological secret. Rising tremors spark tsunami concerns—should travelers to Greece and Turkey be ...

Warren, L. M., E. C. Baluyut, T. Osburg, K. Lisac, and S. Kokkinen, Fault-plane orientations of intermediate-depth and deep-focus earthquakes in the Japan-Kuril ...

The modern understanding of the plate tectonic cycle predicts that remnants of submerged plates will be found near subduction zones. However, a new high-resolution model shows that these remnants ...

Slab pull occurs where older, denser tectonic plates sink into the mantle at subduction zones. As these older sections of plates sink, newer and less dense sections of plate are pulled along behind.