The deepest regions of Earth's oceans, known as the abyssal and hadal zones, lie at least as far under the water's surface as ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

Six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, they launched another assault with plans to occupy Midway Atoll and … ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing ...

A research expedition in the Tonga Trench filmed a Pacific sleeper shark, a slow-moving, opportunistic predator rarely seen ...

A massive underwater volcano located just 300 miles off the Oregon coast is showing signs of an imminent eruption, scientists ...

A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

The largest and most expansive ocean is the Pacific Ocean, covering an astonishing ... Seas are usually shallower than oceans, with an average depth of approximately 3,800 meters.

After a massive wildfire tore through the Pacific Palisades, a home on a hillside was left split in half. While it was survived the flames, a landslide left part of the home slumped over — a ...

PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. - Residents of a storied Los Angeles neighborhood devastated by raging wildfires returned home briefly Thursday to find much of their houses and possessions in cinders ...