India is laying the groundwork for a smart tsunami and earthquake early warning system with a 275 km-long underwater cable in ...

Explore the Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically active region around the Pacific Ocean known for earthquakes and volcanoes.

Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...

For nearly a month, the international team of researchers covered around-the-clock shifts to send powerful sound waves through the ocean to collect information ... part of the plumbing system of a ...

Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at ...

Its authors predict that the next major pause will take place 350 million years from now, when the Pacific Ocean closes and its many subduction zones deactivate. There is not a lot to look forward ...

Seismic activity in the Andaman Sea has surged with over 15 earthquakes recorded. Experts assess potential tsunami risks as ...

In Greenland's icy expanse, scientists unearthed 3.7-billion-year-old stromatolite fossils, the oldest evidence of life on Earth, predating Australian finds by 220 million years. This discovery ...

They captured the event using advanced borehole sensors installed deep beneath the ocean floor in a region known as the ...

The highest volcano in the world is Cerro Ojos del Salado. It is a stratovolcano in South America’s Central Volcanic Zone, reaching an impressive 6893 meters above sea level (or at least above ...

What can the pH level of the subsurface ocean on Enceladus tell us about finding life there? This is what a recent study ...

During the subduction of oceanic lithosphere, water is liberated from minerals by progressive dehydration reactions1,2 and is thought to be critical to several geologically important processes ...