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In a major discovery scientists has revealed new secrets about Europe's most active volcano Mount Etna.Mount Etna has long ...

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Scientists uncover surprising evidence that the Kerguelen hotspot, responsible for the 5,000-kilometer-long Ninetyeast Ridge, ...

Water may have been shaping Earth’s deep interior far earlier than many geologists thought. In rocks more than 3 billion years old from Western Australia, a research team found chemical signs that ...

A rare 2.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded Wednesday, United States Geological Survey officials said. The earthquake happened in Lake Michigan around 2:38 p.m. USGS officials said the location of ...

A rare eruption in the Indian Ocean let researchers capture one of the clearest views yet of a seafloor spreading event ...

The spread of the ocean floor, as tectonic plates spread apart, is known but hard to observe. Scientists have now documented ...