Researchers have found a link between the sun's heat and Earth's seismic activity. Learn more about how this discovery could ...

The Earth's hidden ocean is 700 km beneath this continent. Scientists made a discovery that changes everything we thought we ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

Seismic waves radiate out from the rupture ... spreading in all directions through the surrounding rock and earth. The magnitude of an earthquake tells scientists about the length of the ...

A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from ...

A study found that tectonic plates beneath the Chishima Trench are not slipping past each other but appear to be locked ...