A study on tectonic plates that converge on the Tibetan Plateau has shown that Earth's fault lines are far weaker and the ...

Data from the USGS shows the seismic events have ranged in strength from 2.5 up to 4.2 in magnitude.

A thin, soft and slippery layer of clay-rich mud embedded in rock below the seafloor intensified the 2011 Japan earthquake ...

As East Africa’s great lakes shrink after thousands of years, scientists find the land beneath may be pulling apart faster, ...

The King's Trough Complex is a several-hundred-kilometer-long, canyon-like system of trenches on the North Atlantic seafloor.

For more than a quarter billion years, coral reefs did far more than brighten shallow seas. Long before humans appeared, ...

The surface of our world has been in a constant state of flux for millions of years. Continents have wandered, oceans have ...

Learn more about how Earth’s crust unzipped beneath the Atlantic Ocean, creating a giant underwater canyon.

Travelers come to Barcelona for Gaudí and tapas, but just beyond the tourist circuit a pair of shoemakers is preserving an endangered craft — and proving that slow, handmade objects still have a place ...

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