According to the researchers, prolonged fault activity has fractured and weakened the surrounding rock formations, making the ...

Chinese geologists have found an active fault beneath the Brahmaputra dam project in Tibet. The finding challenges Beijing’s safety assurances and sharpens downstream concerns near India.

Discover 25 mind-blowing facts about the continents and plates beneath your feet! Explore Earth's restless geology, from ...

Even as China races to build the world's largest hydropower project on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, its own government ...

For most of human history, the creation of new ocean floor has been something inferred rather than witnessed. Geologists could map ancient scars on the seabed, measure the slow movement of tectonic ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...