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Deep beneath the eastern Pacific Ocean about 1,000 miles off the coast of Ecuador, a fault line on the seafloor has been generating magnitude 6 earthquakes with almost clocklike regularity for at ...

If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half ...

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

With terrain shaped by volcanic eruptions and shifting tectonic plates, and surrounding waters filled with glaciers, icebergs ...

Remote reefs off Australia’s northwest coast may be remnants of an ancient reef system that helped shape modern marine life.

High-altitude limestone layers reveal the fossilized remains of marine organisms that once thrived in the prehistoric Tethys ...

The earthquake hit around 8:27 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake ...

Scientists are continuing to find evidence that the earth beneath the Pacific Northwest is tearing apart, underscoring the ...

University of Delaware geologist Jessica Warren has contributed to research that brings us one step closer to better ...