Discover 25 mind-blowing facts about the continents and plates beneath your feet! Explore Earth's restless geology, from ...

For most of human history, the creation of new ocean floor has been something inferred rather than witnessed. Geologists ...

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

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 ...

The toll from the back-to-back earthquakes that devastated Venezuela this week climbed Friday to at least 920 dead and 3,360 injured, authorities said.The new figures were announced by Jorge Rodríguez ...

At least 920 people died and nearly 3,000 were injured June 24 after two devastating earthquakes hit a minute apart in northern Venezuela, the Caribbean nation with a long and deadly quake history.

Recent earthquakes in Japan, the Philippines, and Venezuela have renewed attention on some of the world's most active seismic regions, prompting scientists to highlight the geological forces that ...

This article originally ran in March 2023. It's OK, Nevada, we've all been there. After a few million years, things start to spread a little. Tectonic forces, movements that cause a change in the ...

California is shifting about 45–50 millimeters per year as tectonic plates slide past each other along major faults. New research shows Southern California fault systems are highly strained after more ...