The seabed off southern Japan has long held shapes that look out of place. Divers near Amami Oshima Island began noticing ...

Tragic slips in the Bay of Plenty highlight how geology, heavy rainfall and climate change are combining to amplify a largely ...

Melting ice sheets open up land and sea that were previously inaccessible, presenting new — albeit dangerous — opportunities.

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...

At this junction, the Pacific Plate moves northwest against the North American Plate, forming the San Andreas Fault, while the Gorda Plate subducts beneath the North American Plate. However, the ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...

Northern California’s coast keeps you on alert, even on quiet days. Offshore, three tectonic plates meet near Humboldt County ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...

Microscopic Crystals Undercut The Idea That Glaciers Are Behind The Iconic Site In A Nutshell Scientists analyzed microscopic ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can now differentiate between human-derived and hydrological ...

History shows that leaders who excel in one moment can falter in another not because they change, but because the problem ...