Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

The findings could impact how we understand the composition of the land we walk on, together with our understanding of volcanic activity and earthquake risk ...

A section of the upper mantle and crust under the Sierra Nevada mountains is peeling away, in a process that may mimic how ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

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Like a moth in a cocoon, the metamorphosis of Earth's crust from molten goop to solid land is hidden from view, leaving ...

The phenomenon has been happening for millions of years quietly beneath our feet and could shed new light on how the ...

Deep beneath the Zagros Mountains, the Neotethys plate is tearing apart, dragging Earth's crust downward. This shift may ...

Greece's government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

An accumulation of weak to moderate earthquakes has been recorded around the Greek island of Santorini since 24 January. The ...