Welcome to your weekly seismic update from across the state, brought to you by the Alaska Earthquake Center, where we monitor ...

One theory holds that the lower lithosphere splits away and sinks into the mantle in a process called foundering. Conclusive evidence of foundering, however, has been hard to come by.

An update of the convection code ASPECT enables full coupling of plume dynamics with buoyancy effects of transition zone ...

Ilias Roussos will never forget the day he was driven from his native island of Santorini with thousands of others by a quake ...

Under the Sierra Nevada in California, scientists have observed a rare phenomenon that sheds light on the dynamics of the Earth's crust. The rocks of the lithosphere, denser than the ...

The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network reports an earthquake struck the Snoqualmie National Forest area, 44 miles east of ...

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Two BGSU students and their professor will spend much of spring semester in Antarctica studying undersea volcanoes.

Are you preparing for CSE 2025? Here are questions from GS paper 1 for this week with essential points as the fodder for your ...

A global reanalysis of both short- and long-term deformation clarifies how obliquity affects strain partitioning in convergent plate boundaries.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook the Caribbean Sea south of the Cayman Islands Saturday, according to the ...

The Naples area was shaken by a series of earthquakes on Sunday with the strongest registering 3.9, according to the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).