A recent study challenges the long-held belief of the Indian plate smoothly sliding under the Eurasian plate. Seismic data ...

Iceland, the land of ice and fire, is for geologists what the tropics are for ecologists: an opportunity for an unparalleled ...

In this type of fault, the block of rock above the fault plane, known as the hanging wall, moves downward relative to the block below, called the footwall. Normal faults are typically found at ...

In 1982, geologist Martin Hovland sat aboard a research ship owned by the Norwegian oil company Statoil (now Equinor) in the ...

Researchers have studied 150 years of data, predicting that the March earthquake in Myanmar will not be the final one.

Federal cuts to the U.S. Geological Survey have prompted fears of losing vital information on earthquake activity and ...

A major geological surprise has been discovered deep under the icy waters between Greenland and Canada. A Surprising Find Beneath the Davis Strait Researchers from Sweden and the UK have discovered a ...

Plate tectonics — the shifts and collisions between massive, moving geological structures beneath the Earth's surface — causes earthquakes and volcanic eruptions that inject carbon back into ...

When Pope Francis was elected after the Catholic Church was shaken to its foundations by the resignation of his predecessor, ...

Scientists studying soil samples from Nasa's Curiosity rover have discovered that a carbon cycle similar to the one that sustains life on Earth once played out on the red planet. While it's unclear ...

The Japanese government estimates that there is a 70-80 percent chance of a megaquake occurring within 30 years.