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

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Far from the usual myths about planes and ships, the real Bermuda story now sits deep under the Atlantic, where seismologists ...

According to observations of young ridges see on the far side, Earth's moon is not geologically dead, as previously believed.

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

A series of slowly widening fissures in southern Ethiopia once again drew the attention of scientists and authorities to one ...

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

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