Since the beginning of the year, more than 70 earthquakes measuring magnitude 6.0 or greater have rattled regions along the ...

The toll from the back-to-back earthquakes that devastated Venezuela this week climbed Friday to at least 920 dead and 3,360 ...

Doomsday-style warnings erupted online on Friday as a string of powerful earthquakes hit Venezuela, California, Japan and ...

Researchers at Brown have shown the first direct evidence for a massive geologic uplift of the entire Aleutian Island ...

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward ...

Each year, Nevada's land mass expands by about two acres — the equivalent of 32 tennis courts — due to tectonic forces.

Most of the earthquakes we hear about are due to tectonic plates colliding or sliding past each other near plate boundaries.

A series of moderate earthquakes, including a magnitude 5.7, struck off the coast of Northern California and Oregon. The quakes occurred near the Mendocino Triple Junction, one of the most seismically ...

The string of moderate earthquakes occurred within hours along a seismically active stretch near the California–Oregon border.

We are providing an unedited version of this manuscript to give early access to its findings. Before final publication, the manuscript will undergo further editing. Please note there may be errors ...

Earth’s mantle appears to be leaking a little along Central Africa. If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half. In a ...

Days after a 7.1 earthquake struck Searles Valley, California, a U.S Geological Survey crew scanning the area photographed huge swaths of surface rupture in July 2019. (Ben Brooks / USGS) (CN) — ...