Deep heat beneath the Appalachian Mountains may be linked to an ancient rift with Greenland, helping explain why the range is ...

Indonesia’s frequent earthquakes are not random; they can be traced back to the dynamic and powerful forces of plate tectonics. But what exactly is plate tectonics, and how does it cause Indonesia to ...

Venus, often called Earth's "sister planet," shares striking similarities with our world,yet it has become one of the most ...

An 8.8-magnitude earthquake off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula shook the Pacific, but its tsunami fizzled. A geologist explains ...

An undersea earthquake occurs when tectonic plates shift beneath the ocean floor, and while it may go unnoticed at the ...

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

One of the strongest earthquakes in recent history occurred deep underwater beneath the Pacific Ocean. This powerful quake struck off the coast of Russia near the Kamchatka Peninsula, registering a ...

Zealandia, Earth’s hidden eighth continent, revealed in unprecedented detail.

Roughly 124 miles (200 kilometers) beneath the Appalachian Mountains in New England lies the aptly named Northern Appalachian ...

Scientists studying a puzzling hot zone beneath America, called the North Atlantic Anomaly, have proposed a mantle wave ...

Scientists reckon they've solved a 180-million-year deep-Earth mystery that could explain why the Appalachian Mountains are still standing. For a long time, it's thought a huge area of hot rock buried ...

The earthquake near the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on July 30 generated tsunami waves that have reached ...