One of the most active regions in the world is the Pacific Ring of Fire. According to the USGS, this region is where the ...

The earthquake in Venezuela, the strongest in 126 years, could reduce the country's GDP by 20%, experts told Izvestia. A ...

California isn’t exactly where it used to be. Here’s how earthquakes have gradually reshaped the state over time.

By Will Dunham July 2 (Reuters) - While it once was temperate and lush, Earth's southernmost continent Antarctica froze over ...

A new study reveals the 2011 Tohoku earthquake triggered an extraordinary event deep within Earth. Seismic energy traveled to the outer core and bounced back, causing a massive, slow-moving slip along ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck western Nicaragua on Friday, capping a week marked by intense seismic activity across ...

The result was the appearance of the vast East Antarctic ice sheet at a time when global temperatures were around 5C warmer ...

While the synchronicity might give the illusion of similar causality, earthquakes at different parts of the world occur ...

At 250 years, America’s fault lines are showing. Partisan and regional divisions rival the most intense internal conflicts it ...

Few places on the planet look less like Earth than the Danakil Depression, a scorched, sunken stretch of northeastern ...

Venezuelan geological engineer Luiraima Salazar provided some reassurance on Monday, affirming that although the sequence of ...

That makes North Pole Dome the oldest known impact structure on Earth, and the only recognised impact crater from the Archean ...