For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...

The figure is revised from previous projections of 323,000 deaths, but economic damage is estimated to increase to US$2 trillion.

Tokyo’s urgency stems from the trough’s volatile tectonic activity, where the Philippine Sea Plate subducts beneath the Eurasian Plate, storing energy capable of unleashing earthquakes up to ...

A volcano in the central Philippines erupted early Tuesday ... "The Earth is made of tectonic plates, and at the edges of the plates are where all the activity happens mostly, that's where there ...

A volcano in the central Philippines erupted early Tuesday ... "The Earth is made of tectonic plates, and at the edges of the plates are where all the activity happens mostly, that's where there ...

Modelling has predicted a “megaquake” could kill almost 300,000 people and wipe $2.8 trillion from Japan’s economy, according to a doomsday announcement from its government.

A strong earthquake measuring M6.2 on the Richter scale occurred off the coast of the Philippines on April 22, 2025, at 10:17 UTC. This significant seismic event, reported by the United States ...

This region includes major tectonic plates such as the Pacific, Philippine, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, and Nazca Plates. Most of these plates collide and subduct beneath one another, creating intense ...

It is where the Philippine Sea oceanic tectonic plate is “subducting” - or slowly slipping - underneath the continental plate that Japan sits atop. The plates become stuck as they move ...

A significant earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale has struck the Philippine island of Mindanao, according to reports from the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center. This event has ...