A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

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 ...

New seismic map reveals 892 active faults across Greece, offering the first comprehensive database of the country’s tectonic ...

A recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters is the first to directly link earthquakes to climate ...

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.

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

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

The earth beneath the Pacific Northwest is undergoing a transformation that scientists have never witnessed in real time.

"While no human lives and livestock have been lost so far, many villages have been covered in ash and as a result their ...

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