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Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust ...

Even parts of New England and Texas ... with current seismic readings to work out where the highest risks are today. An area in the Pacific Northwest lies on a 'subduction' zone where a tectonic ...

Lithospheric dripping occurs when the underside of Earth's rocky crust is heated to a certain temperature. As the rock melts, a drop starts to form, eventually becoming weighty enough to break off and ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, ...

Explore how North America is changing as its deep cratonic root thins and pieces are dripping into the Earth's mantle.

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in blobs of rock.

The Permian Basin in West Texas is the country's most prolific ... pressurization and earthquakes. The geologic maps, pressure models, and data trends published in the papers can help inform ...

The new standards were expected to reduce 6,000 tons of air toxins annually and reduce the emissions related to cancer risks ...

Alameda County, Mendocino County, San Bernadino County, and San Mateo County are all featured in the top 10, at fifth, seventh, ninth, and 10th respectively. The largest cities in each respectively ...

Texas has experienced four earthquakes since 2:30am ET. The seismic activity hit in the western part of the state, with the latest at 7:58am ET. The US Geological Survey (USGS) shows the quakes ...