Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within 40 seconds of each other, collapsing buildings and killing more than 160 ...

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward ...

New research finds the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults in Southern California are more stressed now than at any time in 1,000 years, raising long-term earthquake risk for millions. Scientists ...

MANILA, Philippines — The magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck off the coast of General Santos City on Monday, June 8, originated from movement along the Cotabato Trench—the same active offshore ...

The ground beneath our feet never felt more restless. Something's happening around the massive horseshoe that circles the Pacific Ocean, and scientists worldwide are paying very close attention. is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The researchers studied the East Pilbara Craton formation in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, seen here. - Roger Norman/Alamy ...

researchers have uncovered the oldest direct evidence of tectonic plate movement, dating back 3.5 billion years. This revelation, published in Science, challenges long-held assumptions about Earth’s ...

Forecasting earthquakes presents a serious challenge on land, but in the oceans that cover around 70% of the Earth’s surface it is all but impossible. However, the vast network of undersea cables that ...

On August 16, 2012, residents of the tiny Dutch village of Huizinge were rattled by an inexplicably large 3.6 magnitude earthquake. Gas extraction in the nearby Groningen gas field, one of the largest ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

The last time I spoke about Tectonic Therapeutic, Inc. (TECX), it was in a Seeking Alpha article entitled "Tectonic: Expansion OF TX45 Candidate Possible After Positive Interim Data." In the article, ...

A study published in the journal Tectonics has provided new insights into the forces that cause tectonic movements in Europe's most seismically active regions. Researchers used advanced satellite data ...