Tectonic activity is shifting Australia northward, messing with GPS-run technology and pushing scie…

The sections, known as plates, move at a rate of about 2 to 5 centimeters per year, which is a simi…

A popular idea about Earth-size rocky planets is that, within about 200 million years, the mantle -…

"All of our past missions have really been surface missions that have characterized the surface, th…

Reports from Japan's Meteorological Agency said there was no threat of a tsunami from the earthquak…

Much of Mexico City is built on a former lakebed, where soft soil has been found to intensify the e…

There are many volcanoes that are threatening due to factors such as tectonic setting, population d…

A paper published shortly after the area's 1985 earthquake found that the shaking had been amplifie…

The country is influenced by the slipping and sliding of several of Earth's tectonic plates, includ…

When New Horizons flung itself past Pluto in 2015, it returned a stream of stunning images. One of …

Two major earthquakes have struck Haiti within 11 years. More are inevitable, seismologists say, be…

An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale jolted the Davao del Sur province in the Philippin…

Close to 10,000 residents have been evacuated from villages near the active volcano, located about …

Scientists have discovered that tiny moonquakes are being produced from the left-behind descent sta…

The New Jersey earthquake came from ancient fault lines from the formation of North America, possib…