A string of earthquakes has hit Washington in recent weeks. Are they connected, and do they tell us anything about the odds ...

Not all mountains in the Yellowstone region are volcanic in origin. The Wind River Range, southeast of Yellowstone National ...

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as LLVPs. Scientists once believed these ...

The Cascadia Subduction Zone, capable of producing a 9.0 magnitude ... So the 4.5 from Monday, for example, has produced some aftershocks. Now they’re way, way smaller. In fact, they’re ...

Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same.

Surprising differences in the two so-called Large Low-Velocity Provinces may risk instability in Earth's protective magnetic ...

The two continent-sized provinces have been known since the 1970s, but it’s only in the last few years we’ve started to ...

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

Yellowstone and Hawaiʻi. These systems a well known for producing large volumes of magma through time and leaving chains of volcanic features in their wake, although they do so in very different ways.

“Subduction zones are also associated with explosive volcanic eruptions.” They cite the example of Tonga’s Hunga Tonga-Hunga ...