The plate tectonics that determine the shape of our continents may have originated from a huge impact billions of years ago. This huge collision with the Earth, thought to have occurred around 4.5 ...

If you think about mountain ranges like the Andes or the Himalayas, you can come up with multiple factors that must affect their size and shape. There’s the collision of tectonic plates that squeezes ...

The massive earthquake that sent sea water as high as 16 feet crashing into Russia's Kuril Islands was the result of a dramatic underground collision between Earth's tectonic plates. India Today ...

The rate of plate convergence during arc-continent collision can be estimated from the rate at which the secondary effects of subduction move across the underriding plate in advance of the plate ...

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 ...