A supercomputer has produced a predictive model detailing the tectonic catastrophe that would end life on Earth as we know it ...

Pangaea began to rift, or split apart, around 200 million years ago. Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents. The land masses continued to move apart, riding on separate plates ...

The whole world used to be joined in one supercontinent called Pangaea. The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust. It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates.

It played a key role in the tectonic movements of the region before being "swallowed" by larger neighboring plates as Pangaea broke up. Over time, the remnants of the Pontus plate became part of ...

and later Pangaea, subducted under the continental crust, again eroding some of the continental rock as the tectonic plates ground together. This created a funnel effect, Doucet said. "You ...

Pressure from a pool of magma has just cracked solid rock, creating a volcano-tectonic (VT) event. This type of quake produces relatively high-frequency shaking, usually between one and five ...

Image: A building is damaged after the earthquake hit in Naypyitaw, Myanmar. Pic: AP Over decades, as the plates grind past each other, tension builds up in the subsurface rock. Such strike-slip ...