The ocean floor slowly stretches apart by allowing molten rock to rise up and form new crust. However, because this happens ...

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A ...

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

The ISC board has released the Class 11 Geography syllabus for board exam 2026-27. The article contains a direct link to ...

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.

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 ...

San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems in ‘critically loaded state’, increasing chance of ‘big one’ quake in future Southern California’s San Andreas and San Jacinto fault systems are at their ...

Earth’s mantle appears to be leaking a little along Central Africa. If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half. In a ...

Days after a 7.1 earthquake struck Searles Valley, California, a U.S Geological Survey crew scanning the area photographed huge swaths of surface rupture in July 2019. (Ben Brooks / USGS) (CN) — ...

Tectonic plates: can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em. Their movements cause some of the world's deadliest disasters, but, as you're about to see, the alternative is much, much worse. Iran says ...

Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate beneath the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The finding briefly raised the public’s ...