Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

Part of the French Riviera was struck by a 4.1 magnitude earthquake this week, but it's not just the south east of France ...

If the landslide at the Barry Arm fjord collapses, its falling ice and rock could generate a devastating 650-foot-high ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

The Italian city has been shaken by its strongest earthquake in 40 years, and is part of a growing pattern of seismic unrest across Southern Europe. Environmental scientist Deborah R. Coen looks at ...

Major earthquakes in the last two decades, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the 2011 ...

(USGS) TOPICS: PORT ANGELES, Wash. — A preliminary earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale hit 31.1 kilometers southeast of Port Angeles, Washington in the Olympic National Park this ...

Most of what we know about the inner structure of the Earth comes from seismic waves produced by ... crust which broke off the rest of its plate and was forced through the mantle.

Arabian and African plates. Within its borders, it lies on the North Anatolian, East Anatolian and West Anatolian fault lines, placing it in an earthquake-prone zone. Experts state that nearly 60% of ...

They look like a cross between an otter and a gopher but they taste something like a rabbit or dark meat from turkey. And conservation officials want you to eat as many of them as you can.

SUMMERVILLE, Ga. — A shallow, weak earthquake occurred in northwest Georgia at 8:00 a.m. early Tuesday morning. The magnitude 2.6 earthquake was about 5 miles northwest of Menlo, Georgia ...