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USC scientists have made a groundbreaking discovery about the nature of the Earth's enigmatic inner core, revealing for the first time that this 1,500-mile-wide ball of iron and nickel is changing.

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

Minutes after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Iran on October 5, 2024, rumors swirled that it wasn’t natural—claims that ...

A magnitude 3.1 earthquake, with an epicenter 3 miles north-northwest of Oak Hill in the southern part of Jackson County, occurred on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The depth of the ...

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

Analysis of historical earthquake records and interseismic deformation across the East Anatolian Fault Zone suggests that coseismic slip in the 2023 earthquakes strongly corresponded to the slip ...

New research shows that meteoroid impacts on Mars generate seismic signals that travel much deeper than previously thought, ...