Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

Bouncing back from under the weight of Ice Age glaciers which have long since vanished, the Nordic region land mass is slowly ...

The Tibetan Plateau, often called the "roof of the world," continues to baffle geologists and others curious about Earth’s ...

Earth’s mantle behaves like a slow-moving fluid, but that hasn’t stopped two vast regions at its base from maintaining a separation from the rest. These continent-sized areas are hotter than the rest ...

Under the Sierra Nevada in California, scientists have observed a rare phenomenon that sheds light on the dynamics of the ...

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

Scientists have discovered hidden treasures in the Earth's mantle. Hidden deep within Earth's mantle are two colossal ...

To find out, the team used whole-Earth oscillation data from 104 past earthquakes to create a detailed 3D model of the upper ...

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths ...

Deeply hidden in Earth’s mantle there are two huge ‘islands’ with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht ...