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A recent 7.3 magnitude earthquake off Alaska's Aleutian Peninsula triggered tsunami warnings, stirring memories of the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami. While the immediate threat subsided, Alaska's ...
A major California fault once thought to be stable is quietly shifting beneath neighborhoods, schools, and it could lead to a ...
A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...
There are several fault lines lies near Delhi, which includes the prominent Mahendragarh-Dehradun Fault (MDF) and the ...
Delhi-NCR was jolted by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning, with the epicentre located in Haryana’s Jhajjar ...
The Concord Fault, which runs through Bay Area neighborhoods in Concord and Walnut Creek is in a different location than previously understood. It could produce a major earthquake in the Bay Area.
The most important tectonic features are the NW-SE strike faults parallel to the extension of the Red Sea, Gulf of Suez rift, Aqaba fault trend, Najd faults system, NE-SW, and E-W (Tethyan trend) that ...
Tectonic map of the Philippine Sea Plate, highlighting the different microplates that formed as a result of oceanic spreading at different spreading centers. Present-day plate boundaries are red.
Researchers have discovered an unusual plume of magma beneath Oman that may have changed the course of the Indian tectonic plate between 25 million and 40 million years ago.
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.
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