Delhi-NCR was jolted by a 4.4-magnitude earthquake on Thursday morning, with the epicentre located in Haryana’s Jhajjar ...

There are several fault lines lies near Delhi, which includes the prominent Mahendragarh-Dehradun Fault (MDF) and the ...

It seems history is on the verge of repeating itself.On July 16, a powerful 7.3‑magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Alaska’s Aleutian Peninsula, just south of Sand Point, triggering a tsunami ...

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.

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.

Earth’s continents may look fixed on a globe, but they’ve been drifting, splitting and reforming over billions of years – and ...

A team of scientists put together a global database of submarine mud volcanoes. Orders of magnitude more are still bubbling, ...

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A spot in eastern Africa called the Afar Triangle marks the meeting point of three rift zones—lines where Earth’s crust is being rent apart. Researchers haven’t been sure exactly what drives this ...

A major California fault once thought to be stable is quietly shifting beneath neighborhoods, schools, and it could lead to a ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

“The work shows that deep mantle upwellings can flow beneath the base of tectonic plates and help to focus volcanic activity to where the tectonic plate is thinnest.