By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

This rift is slowly pulling the African continent apart, and over millions of years, it could isolate the eastern portion of ...

Invisible earthquakes are revealing a hidden tectonic puzzle beneath California’s most dangerous fault zone.

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the ...

New research from Adelaide University suggests the power of the ancient Tethys Ocean might have shaped Central Asia's ...

Earthquakes happen due to sudden movement of tectonic plates and stress release along fault lines beneath the Earth’s crust.

Southern Spain sits at the heart of one of Europe’s most seismically active regions due to the slow but constant convergence ...

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

Does Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, contain the conditions for life as we know it? This is what a recent study published in ...

Far beneath central Turkey, a dense slab of rock is peeling away from the bottom of the continent and sinking into the mantle ...

"We're not saying, and we can't say, that there's no life in Europa. What we're saying is that it's a harder proposition, ...

A 4.6 magnitude earthquake has struck Fornace Zarattini in northern Italy, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The earthquake ...