An aerial view of motorists driving on I-15 through the Cajon Pass near the San Andreas fault on June 23, 2026 in Cajon Junction, California. Mario Tama/Getty Images A Pacific M6.3 and a pair of ...

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

This video reconstructs Pangaea, the supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago when all modern continents were ...

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

The two earthquakes that struck Venezuela on Wednesday, March 24, measuring 7.5 and 7.2 on the Richter scale, respectively, have already left more than 900 people dead, more than 3,000 injured, and ...

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.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Researchers at Brown have shown the first direct evidence for a massive geologic uplift of the entire Aleutian Island archipelago driven by a rotation of the Pacific tectonic plate. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

When massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake shook Japan on March 11, 2011, the ground also made a more lasting move. About 15 minutes after the event began at 2:46 p.m. local time, nearly the entire country ...

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 ...