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

At the top of the world, there is a sea—the remains of one, at least. The summit rocks of Mount Everest, the highest ...

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

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?

New research disproves claims that a 4.5 magnitude quake was a covert nuclear weapons test by the Iranian regime.

A scientific investigation dismantles the widespread claim that an Iranian earthquake was actually a secret nuclear test.

On February 8, 2025, a powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake hit the Northwestern Caribbean Sea, initiating a Tsunami alert 130 miles southwest of Grand and 20 miles north of Honduras.

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake, with an epicenter 3 miles north-northwest of Oak Hill in the southern part of Jackson County, ...

The region hosts volcanoes as well as numerous weak zones in the crust – what earth scientists often call “faults”. Santorini itself is a mostly submerged caldera – a crater formed as a ...

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...