Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

The earthquakes have also sparked fears of volcanic eruptions because they are happening near two active volcanoes ... into large sections called tectonic plates. These plates fit together ...

Mount Vesuvius may be Europe's most famous volcano, but lurking nearby is an ancient supervolcano, a ticking timebomb that ...

In contrast, a dormant volcano has not erupted for thousands of years and shows no immediate signs of reactivation or imminent eruption. Tectonic plates interact at their boundaries in three ...

Research suggests that an ancient shoreline helped to sculpt the drop between Mars' southern and northern hemispheres.

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all have shuffled off our mortal coils by then, the effects Professor Macdonald ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

volcanoes, and earthquakes – and a lot of them. “Much of the volcanic activity occurs along subduction zones, which are convergent plate boundaries where two tectonic plates come together ...