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

Geoscientists at the University of Glasgow have helped reveal new evidence about the formation of one of the highest ...

Jon Thoreau Scott was a free and original thinker. As a longtime professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within 40 seconds of each other, collapsing buildings and killing more than 160 ...