A deep earthquake in Chile surprised scientists by using heat to grow stronger far underground and cause serious surface ...

When a powerful quake struck northern Chile in 2024, the damage did not match what scientists expected from its depth. The ...

VICTORIA - Minutes after a massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off Vancouver Island one summer's day, thousands of British Columbians are dead or injured in the wreckage — then comes ...

From Earth's orbit, an observer witnessed the birth and course of a colossus of the seas. Back to July 29, 2025. A major ...

Scientists warn that the plate beneath Gibraltar arc will begin to shift toward the Atlantic within 20 million years.

Spain and Portugal may appear completely stable, but geologists say the Iberian Peninsula is slowly rotating due to powerful ...

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of Japan behaved so unusually as it lifted the seafloor and produced a tsunami ...

A powerful 2025 Kuril-Kamchatka earthquake generated a Pacific-wide tsunami, captured by NASA's SWOT satellite. These unprecedented high-resolution i ...

The Earth's lithosphere is the rigid outer shell of the planet and is broken into several tectonic plates. These plates are in constant motion over the semi-fluid asthenosphere underneath them. Much ...

Even long-lived subduction zones eventually die, and scientists believe they are witnessing the slow death of one in the northern end of the Cascadia subduction zone. A new study using seismic data ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...