Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. Now add to ...

Within the next 30 years, a highly destructive Nankai Trough megathrust earthquake is predicted to hit southwest Japan. Understanding long-term slow slip events (L-SSE (*1)) that occur along the plate ...

GPS data analysis has brought to light a gradual and inconspicuous movement of tectonic plates, commencing two hours before an earthquake. However, detecting this phenomenon in advance would ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

Scientists studying rocks in South Africa report evidence for the earliest known earthquake triggered by plate tectonics. The temblor struck more than 3 billion years ago. The rocks preserve telltale ...

Recent advancements in seismology have shed light on the enigmatic triggers behind ‘impossible’ earthquakes, seismic events ...

When will "The Big One" hit the U.S. West Coast? Nobody knows, but should it happen, science can give us a good idea of its ...

WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico has felt hundreds of aftershocks after the Jan. 7 magnitude 6.4 earthquake. And throughout history, earthquakes are not an unheard-of occurrence on the island. This is because ...

“Our results show that monitoring the b value over time offers a valuable opportunity to track magma movements from deep to shallow portions of the plumbing system and could be integrated into Etna’s ...

We often affiliate plate tectonics with earthquakes, as we are all taught in school that the shifting of plates leads to big shakes. But plate tectonics serve a far more important job to the planet ...

Some great ideas shake up the world. For centuries, the outermost layer of Earth was thought to be static, rigid, locked in place. But the theory of plate tectonics has rocked this picture of the ...