A series of moderate earthquakes rattled the waters off Northern California and southern Oregon early Thursday near the ...

Earthquakes near Mendocino Triple Junction shake waters off Northern California with no tsunami or major damage.

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 desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...

The Nankai Trough just off southern Japan poses a severe seismic threat, with locked plates accumulating enormous stress. A ...

That would have enabled more of this organic carbon—and carbonate accumulating in shallow water around Columbia—to be ...

For the most part, everyone sees Spain and Portugal as absolutely stable areas on maps. But underneath it all, the land mass they occupy is actually moving very gradually.A group of scientists from ...

“We also discovered that tectonic movements did not push the Apostles perfectly straight upward. Instead, they forced the layers to tilt and break along the way. If you look closely at the cliffs ...

Bizarre Venus surface formations (or coronae) are likely key to understanding our twin planet's heretofore inscrutable interior. Using NASA Magellan spacecraft data from decades past, Anna Gulcher, an ...

For a state that prides itself as the intellectual and political gateway of the republic, this realignment is the inevitable ...

Residents of a Clackmannanshire street have been evacuated after evidence of ground movement was discovered. Clackmannanshire ...

Scientists have finally explained why a Pacific Ocean fault has been generating repeating “clockwork” earthquakes for decades. (Artist’s concept.) Credit: SciTechDaily.com.