One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a new ocean and continent on Earth.

Deep beneath California's Sierra Nevada mountains, geologists have found evidence of Earth's rigid outer layer sinking into ...

Ethiopias Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest ...

The U.S. Geological Survey recorded an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 that occurred 8 miles west of Guam at 3:48 p.m. at a depth of 83 miles, according ...

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake hit Taiwan on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, injuring 27 people, triggering landslides ...

The processes that form continental crust from the denser basaltic rocks of the upper mantle may make the lower lithosphere ...

Perhaps incredibly, some experts are putting their money on the Ring of Fire – predicting that, eventually, the Pacific Ocean ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...