Tectonic plates colliding deep below the ocean's surface can trigger major earthquakes and tsunamis. A new study from a team of scientists including Samer Naif shows that water may play a bigger role than previously known in the magnitude of these quakes.

Georgia Tech's Samer Naif co-authors study showing streams of heated rocks called mantle plumes probably play a role in creating a slippery base for tectonic plates.

Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Professor Samer Naif and Darcy Cordell, a former postdoctoral scholar, have uncovered new findings that could change how scientists view water’s role in preventing — or perhaps encouraging — earthquakes

A team of scientists led by Georgia Tech have observed past episodic intraplate magmatism and corroborated the existence of a partial melt channel at the base of the Cocos Plate.