Aftershocks are expected from an earthquake that shook residents awake along a stretch of Australia's east coast.

As the Earth's crust shifted and groaned over millions of years, something extraordinary happened beneath the surface. Deep ...

Iran’s Zagros folds are visible via satellite imagery Formed by Arabian-Eurasian plate collision Offers insight into mountain ...

Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

The paper advocates drilling intact oceanic crust to determine the Moho's petrological nature and resolve crustal composition misconceptions, ...

Recent discoveries offer deeper insight into the movement of tectonic plates. New research has found that variations in rock ...

While not a household name like the San Andreas, the Elsinore fault is part of a larger seismic zone that experts fear and ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) ...

Researchers have discovered that the underside of the North American continent is dripping away in blobs of rock—and that the remnants of a tectonic plate sinking in Earth's mantle may be the ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

This early rocky shell featured chemical signatures previously thought to occur only in continental crusts made by the ...