An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2025 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event, but triggered by a mineralogical shift in Earth’s mantle.

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, earth scientists from the University of Hawaiʻi ...

In a nutshell Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme ...

Using a nearly 200-year record of lava chemistry from Kīlauea and Maunaloa, Earth scientists from the University of Hawai'i ...

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For example, they may be made of crust-like material left over from the mantle's creation 4 billion ... Harry is a U.K.-based senior staff writer at Live Science. He studied marine biology at ...