California sits on an active plate boundary where the Pacific and North American plates grind past each other, producing ...
A series of moderate earthquakes rattled the waters off Northern California and southern Oregon early Thursday near the ...
Earthquakes near Mendocino Triple Junction shake waters off Northern California with no tsunami or major damage.
Residents across Hawaiʻi Island felt the ground shake at 5:58 p.m. HST on June 2, 2026, when a magnitude-4.6 earthquake ...
Off the southern coast of Japan, the Philippine Sea Plate lies underneath the Japanese mainland. The locked tectonic plates threaten to unleash a catastrophic megathrust earthquake, likely within the ...
The Nankai Trough just off southern Japan poses a severe seismic threat, with locked plates accumulating enormous stress. A ...
A joint study of geological data by Chinese and foreign researchers has revealed that the Earth's rotation decelerated in a step-like pattern 700 million to 200 million years ago. Throughout the Earth ...
The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift ...
Ancient rocks on the Greek island of Crete reveal a 130-million-year tectonic journey, tracing deep subduction, and slow ...
Earth was mostly devoid of oxygen for much of its 4.5 billion year lifetime. That is, until certain processes started to ...
That would have enabled more of this organic carbon—and carbonate accumulating in shallow water around Columbia—to be ...
A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water may flood it in a few million years ...