Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...
Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.
Beneath our feet, hundreds of kilometers deep, lies an invisible yet essential world: the Earth's mantle. For a long time, ...
A re-examination of the 2015 Bonin Islands earthquake disproved earlier claims of a record-breaking deep aftershock in the ...
Oregon scientists are hoping to help the coastal communities survive a major inundation in various ways. One of those is ...
Their existence contradicts the common assertion the Earth’s mantle is well-mixed, suggesting our models are wrong.
The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence in May 2015, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the ...
Geophysicists find areas that resemble the results of tectonic plate collisions — far from any area of such activity.
SNOQUALMIE, Wash. — An earthquake struck near Snoqualmie Monday afternoon, according to the United States Geological Survey ...