Seismologists have known for years that the Indo-Australian plate of Earth's crust is slowly breaking apart, but they saw it in action last April when at least four faults broke in a magnitude-8.7 ...

SALT LAKE CITY Sept. 26, 2012 – Seismologists have known for years that the Indo-Australian plate of Earth's crust is slowly breaking apart, but they saw it in action last April when at least four ...

THE massive earthquakes that hit Nepal on April 25th and May 12th—measuring magnitude 7.8 and 7.3 respectively—took place, as most large earthquakes do, on a boundary between two of the Earth’s ...

Two giant earthquakes in the eastern Indian Ocean have shown geologists that breaking up is easy to do — for tectonic plates, that is. The pair of quakes hit on April 11, startling seismologists with ...

The massive earthquake that struck under the Indian Ocean southwest of Sumatra on April 11, 2012, came as a surprise to seismologists and left them scrambling to figure out exactly what had happened.

How can earthquakes happen in places like Australia that are far from the edges of tectonic plates? Why are some parts of the world more active than others? Earlier this year, a 5.7 earthquake hit the ...