Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

Along the remote coast where the San Andreas Fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, earthquakes too small for humans to ...

Most of the Earth is covered by water. About 71 percent of the planet’s surface is ocean, while the rest is land made up of ...

The Makran Subduction Zone is a significant but understudied source of tsunamigenic earthquakes impacting the northern Indian Ocean. Despite more than ...

Marine turbidites are layers of mud and sand deposited on the deep ocean floor by massive underwater landslides and are often ...

Three-month expedition will plumb uncharted depths of eastern Pacific in quest for new life forms and insights into quakes ...

Life in paradise can be hard. Paradise is a Greek word of Persian origin made famous by the Jewish bible: it comes from a mix of very different cultures. The word means a walled garden. The garden ...

Scientists are uncovering a hidden and surprisingly complex earthquake zone beneath Northern California by tracking swarms of ...

The world's greatest earthquake belt, the circum-Pacific seismic belt, is found along the rim of the Pacific Ocean, where about 81 per cent of our planet's largest earthquakes occur. It has earned the ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake was recorded about 183 miles west of Bandon, Ore. Thursday afternoon. According to the USGS, the ...