Long before Mars turned into the frozen desert you see today, water shaped its surface in dramatic ways. Rivers cut through ...

Map of significant earthquakes (greater than magnitude 4) in the UK Credit: British Geological Survey/UKRI News of a ...

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mexico, centered about 50 miles south-southwest of La Esperanza.

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

One wonders what the scientist would have to say about Kanhaiya Bhelari, the editor-in-chief of Swaraj Post, who said in an ...

Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, triggering unexpected quakes in tectonically stable regions.

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

A giant crack is tearing through Africa—and it’s not slowing down. Hidden beneath the surface, a dramatic geological shift is ...

The last time Vermont mapped out the rock underlying the Newport Quadrangle, many scientists still thought Earth’s continents ...

As explosive eruptions and frequent quakes capture global attention, the Pacific 'Ring of Fire' raises questions over where ...

Earthquakes are often treated as acts of nature that strike without warning along famous plate boundaries, yet a growing body ...

Coral reefs didn’t merely mirror global change, but helped regulate how fast the climate bounced back from massive surges of ...