Understanding why this earthquake was so extraordinary requires a brief lesson in Earth’s structure. Most earthquakes we experience happen in Earth’s crust, the relatively thin outer layer ...

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

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

Earth's crust is the planet's outermost layer ... One of the biggest risks during an earthquake is building collapse. Poorly built structures are at risk, but even well-built structures that are not ...

In 2021, a team led by Dr Gary Kinsland of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette found evidence that the impact and ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating more material in some areas and less in others — almost like creating hills ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...

South Carolina has high seismic activity despite not being on a plate boundary. Scientists still don't know the answer for ...

Tibet and Nepal lie on a major geological fault line where the Indian tectonic plate pushes up into the Eurasian plate, and earthquakes are a regular occurrence as a result of it. The region is ...

Incorporating solar activity predictions into detailed Earth temperature models may improve seismic forecasts and save lives.

The region is prone to seismic activity due to tectonic plate collisions, with earthquakes regularly impacting the area.