A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun ...

It’s been a full week of earthquakes in California, including a 4.1 near Templeton that triggered an alert for residents.

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A minor, 3.2-magnitude earthquake struck in the San Francisco Bay Area on Thursday, according to the United States Geological ...

New research reveals sharks and rays have been declining for 45 million years, offering key insight into today’s accelerating ...

Had one hoped to leave a time capsule for today’s Bostonians in the Permian period 250 million years ago, much less the Pliocene epoch four million years ago , they would have been completely, utterly ...

Fast forward to just 20,000 years ago — a blink of an eye in geological time. Southern Ontario was buried under the ...

In 1979, the University of Minnesota’s Harold Mooney estimated that Minnesota’s average recurrence rate for a magnitude 4 ...

To say that a trip from Earth to Mars is merely a long one would be a massive understatement. On July 30, 2020, when the ...

A $300,000 grant cut to the Alaska Earthquake Center could force nine stations offline and delay warnings for Alaska, ...

A light, 4.1-magnitude earthquake struck in Central California on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Cover-subsidence sinkholes “tend to develop gradually where the covering sediments are permeable and contain sand. In areas ...