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

Earlier study of the region had shown that the spreading in the area occurs at an average rate of a bit over 60 millimeters a ...

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 ...

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 ...