Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

The Earth's hard outer layer (where we live) is called the crust. It is made up of large ... Scotland - and The Great Glen - lie on the Great Glen fault. A fault is where two tectonic plates ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

Volcanic eruptions release molten lava that reshapes the landscape, creating new landforms like lava plateaus and islands.

JHU-led study on 2024 Iran earthquake shows potential consequences of mishandling and misinterpreting scientific information, ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Scientists found that the inner core’s structure changes as it rotates. It deforms at its border, potentially accumulating ...

Several thousand earthquakes have been recorded near the Greek island since late January. So why is this happening?

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

Earth's crust is the planet's outermost layer ... The places where pieces of crust move against each other are called fault lines, and scientists monitor fault lines to measure earthquakes.