Calculating a fossil's position throughout geological history is a complex process. In paleontology and other disciplines, ...

Earth’s crust looks solid from the surface, but it is broken into a shifting mosaic of slabs that slowly rearrange oceans and continents. Understanding how those tectonic plates first formed is one of ...

David Shelly, a geophysicist at the USGS Geologic Hazards Center in Golden, Colorado, led the study alongside researchers ...

In schools across the country, geography has often been folded into other subjects. Even so, the facts we learned about ...

They were absolutely floored. For the first time ever, scientists have recorded the birth of a seafloor in real time, way ...

Marie Tharp's ocean floor maps proved continental drift real, but her discovery was first dismissed as "girl talk." ...

A preliminary satellite assessment by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration estimated that 58,870 buildings were damaged or destroyed after the twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela on ...

Bathymetry of a known caldera, Niuatahi, in the Tongan archipelago. (NOAA Vents Program) Deep beneath the ocean waves, dangers lurk. Not from cryptic monsters like the kraken, but from powerful forces ...

For most of human history, the creation of new ocean floor has been something inferred rather than witnessed. Geologists could map ancient scars on the seabed, measure the slow movement of tectonic ...

Volcano Watch” is a weekly column and volcano/earthquake activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano ...

Hawaii Island residents may have felt shaking recently from large, deep earthquakes. Deep earthquakes like this have been ...

Frequent earthquakes and tremors from Kashmir to Chenab keep Jammu and Kashmir on alert, raising concerns over seismic ...