The league of experts and scientists who have spent decades keeping watch — the guardians at the gate — is being decimated by ...

Since late February, thousands of earthquakes have been recorded, mostly of low magnitude, among the islands of Santorini, ...

JAKARTA: A 5.7-magnitude earthquake hit near the Indonesian island of Sumatra on Friday (May 23), the United States ...

Even when the geology is ideal, it can take years to get a green light to drill,' Rep. Celeste Maloy said on the challenges ...

The tiny Juan de Fuca plate is largely responsible for the volcanoes that dot the Pacific Northwest of the United States. The plates make up Earth's outer shell, called the lithosphere.

In recent days, several Asian countries have been experiencing mild tremors of earthquakes continuously. Coincidentally, all ...

At least 20 per cent of the urban area was sinking by at least 2mm per year. These include cities like New York, Chicago, ...

Q: Why did James Smithson leave his fortune to the United States and not to institutions ... of rock samples from around the globe, since tectonic plates move over time. The samples are tested ...

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 ... and the United States Geological ...

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it marks a 3.8-billion-year-old gneiss — or so scientists thought.

scientists say “the big one” will hit the United States. There is danger lurking on the sea floor off the Pacific Northwest’s coast: After centuries of two tectonic plates pushing up against ...