Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...

Texas was struck by a series of earthquakes on Thursday, the strongest of which registered a magnitude of 3.3, according to ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

Texas has been rattled by a series of small earthquakes within the past 24 hours, raising eyebrows in the typically calm ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

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

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

With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps on March 24, California’s firefighting agency is showing just how much of the state is prone to wildfire — and how much that ...

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 ...

For instance, the northeastern region of our country is prone to earthquakes, while communities living near water bodies or coastal areas are at risk of floods. "These natural disasters pose ...

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

Two massive earthquakes jolted central Myanmar on Friday, triggering panic as buildings collapsed and dramatic visuals surfaced online. Central Myanmar was jolted by two powerful earthquakes—measuring ...