Roughly 90 percent of the planet’s earthquakes strike along a single geologic feature: a 40,000-kilometer arc of colliding ...
Off the southern coast of Japan, the Philippine Sea Plate lies underneath the Japanese mainland. The locked tectonic plates threaten to unleash a catastrophic megathrust earthquake, likely within the ...
The Nankai Trough just off southern Japan poses a severe seismic threat, with locked plates accumulating enormous stress. A ...
A 9.2 magnitude earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could collapse bridges, destroy hospitals, and trigger a tsunami that dwarfs anything in U.S. history. Here's what the science says, and ...
An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight into how ancient continents on Earth formed as far back as 3.5 billion ...
A new study has produced the first comprehensive survey of the many complex structures beneath the seafloor in the Cascadia Subduction Zone, off British Columbia, Washington, Oregon and California. It ...
For centuries, the vanished Inca fortress of Ancocagua existed only in lore. Now, at a mountaintop site in Peru, researchers are zeroing in on a discovery that could reshape what we know of the empire ...
The body of Matthew Cameron Paton, 53, was found on Thursday, about 300m down a steep slope. Warning of record global temperatures as chance of very strong El Niño grows Technical and logistical ...
This article was originally published on February 11 and has since been updated. Peru’s 27.3 million eligible voters had just three weeks to decide between their two options in the presidential runoff ...