Recent seismic research has unveiled a fascinating geological phenomenon occurring beneath the Pacific Northwest. The Earth’s crust is tearing apart, a process driven by tectonic forces in the region.

The November GSA Today science article, "Why did the Southern Gulf of California rupture so rapidly? -- Oblique divergence across hot, weak lithosphere along a tectonically active margin," is now ...

Eastern Africa’s Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. Now researchers have found ...

A continental rifting process that normally takes millions of years to form has developed over a span of seven weeks in the Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia. It was a close study, using radar ...

The African landmass is breaking apart faster than scientists previously thought, potentially leading to the fracturing of the continent and the formation of a new ocean, per a Columbia Climate School ...

The Red Sea is parting again, but this time Moses doesn’t have a hand in it. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Satellite images show ...