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

The earthquake that just shook the East Coast was caused by one of dozens of ancient fault lines that have lain dormant for ...

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 ...

offering insights into a distant future of possible volcanic activity Sarah Kuta A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the ...

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

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained ...

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

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.