Eruptions from volcanic arcs, found where tectonic plates converge, are one of the major drivers of natural carbon emissions, ...

An international team's seafloor study revealed one reason why the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami were so devastating. The ...

A massive earthquake off the Pacific Northwest coast is not a distant abstraction but a well-defined geological threat. Along ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating ...

Seismic tremors reveal a shallow fragment of ancient tectonic plate beneath Northern California, helping explain damaging ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

Chaos in Iran could create an American chokehold on the energy that China’s industry — and military — needs to operate.

Scientists used satellite data to confirm that Earth's crust is "dripping" into the mantle beneath Turkey's Central Anatolian ...

"It's getting ready to erupt"—one of America's most active volcanoes has the country on edge. It is called the Axial Seamount ...