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Australian scientists are about to change the location of an entire continent for the first time in 22 years
Tectonic activity is shifting Australia northward, messing with GPS-run technology and pushing scie…
Noah Friedman,Jessica Orwig
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A discovery about the movement of tectonic plates will have scientists rewriting textbooks
The sections, known as plates, move at a rate of about 2 to 5 centimeters per year, which is a simi…
Lindsay Dodgson
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We may be overlooking a critical factor in our quest to find alien life
A popular idea about Earth-size rocky planets is that, within about 200 million years, the mantle -…
Dave Mosher
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NASA's InSight lander may not be as sexy as a Mars rover, but here's why the mission matters for Earthlings
"All of our past missions have really been surface missions that have characterized the surface, th…
Hilary Brueck
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Magnitude 6.0 earthquake strikes off coast of Japan, rattling the Tokyo Olympic Games
Reports from Japan's Meteorological Agency said there was no threat of a tsunami from the earthquak…
Azmi Haroun,Madison Hall
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Mexico is in the worst possible place for earthquakes - here's why it keeps getting hit
Much of Mexico City is built on a former lakebed, where soft soil has been found to intensify the e…
Erin Brodwin
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These 18 'Very High Threat' Volcanoes Could Wreak Havoc On The US
There are many volcanoes that are threatening due to factors such as tectonic setting, population d…
Ajai Raj
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Mexico is in the worst possible place for earthquakes - here's why it keeps getting hit
A paper published shortly after the area's 1985 earthquake found that the shaking had been amplifie…
Erin Brodwin
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A 6.1-magnitude earthquake has struck Japan 175 miles from the Fukushima nuclear plant
The country is influenced by the slipping and sliding of several of Earth's tectonic plates, includ…
Erin Brodwin
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Something is moving beneath Pluto's icy skin - and it might be liquid water
When New Horizons flung itself past Pluto in 2015, it returned a stream of stunning images. One of …
Rafi Letzter
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It's only a matter of time before Haiti experiences yet another major earthquake, seismologists say - here's why
Two major earthquakes have struck Haiti within 11 years. More are inevitable, seismologists say, be…
Aylin Woodward
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Earthquake of 6.3 magnitude hits Philippines
An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale jolted the Davao del Sur province in the Philippin…
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10,000 people have been evacuated after tremors around Mount Agung volcano in Bali
Close to 10,000 residents have been evacuated from villages near the active volcano, located about …
Erin Brodwin,Reuters
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Mysterious tremors on the moon have been traced back to an unexpected source
Scientists have discovered that tiny moonquakes are being produced from the left-behind descent sta…
Marianne Guenot
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The East Coast earthquake came from a fault that's been asleep for hundreds of millions of years but suddenly reactivated
The New Jersey earthquake came from ancient fault lines from the formation of North America, possib…