Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

An international study has revealed how continental collisions may have supercharged the Earth's richest deposits of copper, ...

California's San Andreas Fault is capable of triggering a massive earthquake. Here's what to know about this famous location often associated with earthquakes.

Evidence has been found for a mantle plume beneath Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula. Unlike all the confirmed mantle plumes found before, however, this one is not associated with current or recent ...

To set an example for all of California The Altadena Auto Center, left, destroyed in the Eaton fire on Fair Oaks Avenue in Altadena is seen on Friday, May 30, 2025.

So, in effect, tidal flexing creates a habitable zone that’s isolated from the Sun. Since many hycean worlds are expected to orbit their stars closely, can tidal heating alter their habitable zones?

Alds. Felix Cardona Jr., 31st, and Gil Villegas, 36th, are introducing an amendment to the Northwest Side Preservation Ordinance that would remove their wards.

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world's most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...

Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...