Caltech researchers introduce a new seismic technology called distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to study earthquakes and ...

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study Earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between ...

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

Caltech researchers have developed a new method to study the earth's structure deep beneath the surface, at the boundary between Earth's brittle crust ...

The recent earthquake that struck Japan on January 1, 2024, has left scientists puzzled due to its unusual precursory events.

A lava stream from a volcanic eruption in West Iceland is brighter than the lights of the city's nearby capital, new infrared ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.4 occurred on 26 November 2024 in Japan's north-central region of Noto Peninsula at a depth of ...

Earth's surface is a turbulent place. Mountains rise, continents merge and split, and earthquakes shake the ground. All of these processes result from plate tectonics, the movement of enormous chunks ...

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake struck near the west coast of Honshu, Japan on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological ...

A moderately strong magnitude-6.6 earthquake struck off the coast of central Japan Tuesday night, rattling an area still ...

This one is quite weak, and earthquakes here in Japan ... and on the outside is the crust. The Earth’s crust is cracked into different pieces called plates, a bit like an eggshell.

New research has revealed that the Ninetyeast Ridge -- the Earth's longest straight underwater mountain chain -- formed through a different process than previously believed. Stretching 5000 km along ...