Recent research from Curtin University has unveiled groundbreaking insights about the Ninetyeast Ridge — the longest straight ...

New Curtin University research has revealed that the Ninetyeast Ridge—the Earth's longest straight underwater mountain ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. 4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller ...

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the largest earthquakes on ...

Landslides cause more than a billion dollars in damage in the United States each year, according to the American Geoscience ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

Residents of Stamford and Moodus both have experienced small recent earthquakes. They're not unheard of in this region, ...

Japan was rocked by a 6.1 magnitude earthquake off its western coast.

which studies the climate and earth sciences. “It’s a place where earthquakes can happen if stress builds up, and stress can build up in the middle of a plate because of the forces of plate ...

To learn why, where, and how earthquakes happen, you need to familiarize your students with the interior of the Earth and a model called plate tectonics. The engine behind the earthquake machine ...

Every thirty seconds, there's an earthquake somewhere in the world. Although, don't worry. Most are minor. The Earth's surface is made up of a number of plates that are almost always moving.