Analysing lava flows that solidified and then broke apart over a massive crack in the Earth's crust in Turkey has brought new insights into how continents move over time, improving our understanding ...

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck in the South Atlantic Ocean on Friday, prompting a tsunami alert for parts of the ...

The office, which is part of the U.S. Geological Survey under the Department of the Interior, has been subject to the cost-cutting efforts initiated in a mass email that Mr. Musk’s team sent ...

In August last year the Japanese authorities issued an unprecedented earthquake warning to communities near the Nankai Trough south of Honshū and Shikoku ... on its own geologic time scale ...