Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

Under our feet, processes are occurring that could reshape the world map in the long run. Africa, although it seems like a ...

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

The world's smallest continent is on the move - creeping about 2.8 inches, or seven centimetres, a year towards southeast Asia.

This discovery was made possible through a groundbreaking technique that maps seismic waves traveling through the Earth's ...

The Greek island of Santorini has been rocked by more than 300 earthquakes in the past few days. Thousands of people have ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

While doctors use ultrasound to visualize organs without opening the body, geophysicists analyze seismic waves to map the ... is divided into several tectonic plates that float and move slowly on the ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has rattled southern Texas in the vicinity of San Antonio, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

Among the enigmatic mantle lumps are two enormous “supercontinents” buried thousands of kilometers below the crust amid the remains of ancient tectonic ... including plate movement, in ways ...