Deep earthquakes remain one of the most puzzling phenomena in geophysics, and the phrase “mechanism that supercharges” them ...

The processes observed in the Yellowstone borehole may not be unique. Many regions around the world experience regular ...

Far below your feet, nearly 1,800 miles beneath oceans and continents, Earth carries two massive scars from its violent youth ...

About 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) below our feet, two enormous patches of strange rock sit above Earth’s core. New ...

A fault line in Canada's Yukon territory has stirred after more than 12,000 years of geological sleep. Researchers studying ...

A powerful earthquake that struck Calama in 2024 defied long-held assumptions about how deep earthquakes behave. In July 2024 ...

For some residents, the morning shake was a reminder of a powerful quake that also struck near Anchorage in late November, at ...

Three 'superfactors' combined to produce the 2025 Myanmar earthquake - one of the longest and fastest-moving ruptures ever ...

Since the magnitude 4.0 event, two smaller quakes—located deeper in Earth’s crust than the larger one—have already occurred: first a 2.7 magnitude tremor just to the northeast, then a 3.6 magnitude ...

Slow earthquakes have been discovered to exhibit anomalously slow, long-lasting and small slips, adjacent to regular ...

Aliens are a staple of sci-fi filmmaking, but some classics like Back to the Future, Children of Men, and Interstellar don't ...

You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen ...