A magnitude 4.5 earthquake rocked the US heartland, spreading shock waves that were felt 200 miles away from the epicenter.

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2025 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event, but triggered by a mineralogical shift in Earth’s mantle.

Much of the important preparation for natural disasters is psychological. Every time there’s an earthquake or a natural ...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck near York Harbor, Maine, early Monday, sending tremors as far south as Boston and as far ...

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake struck near York Harbor, Maine, on Monday, approximately 7 miles south of the coastal area, ...

Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

Ethiopia's Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological Survey ...

A subset of these planetesimals then accreted to form the Earth, which, over several hundred million years, formed a crust consisting of mobile tectonic plates that hosted the first biosphere. Dr. Fu ...

An earthquake expert at Kyoto University said Monday's tremor could have occurred where tectonic plates meet. Assistant Professor Yamashita Yusuke of Kyoto University's Disaster Prevention ...