On March 28, 2025, a significant seismic event unfolded in the ocean depths of the central Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Recorded as a magnitude 6.1 earthquake by the United States Geologic ...

Pressure from a pool of magma has just cracked solid rock, creating a volcano-tectonic ... of tectonic plates at plate boundaries, such as the San Andreas fault and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge).

Plate tectonic theory shows that the crust of the ... forming shallow-sided volcanoes. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, where the Eurasian and North American Plates ...

The finding gives evidence, however, that the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is involved actively in plate tectonics more than ever thought before. "This work refutes long-held assumptions that mid-ocean ...

A team from the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP) reveals the role of CO 2 degassing in deep earthquakes beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge ... Earth's mantle beneath oceanic ridges, where ...