An increase in seismic activity has prompted predictions that a mile-wide submarine volcano named the Axial Seamount will ...

Mount Vesuvius may be Europe's most famous volcano, but lurking nearby is an ancient supervolcano, a ticking timebomb that ...

The Great Rift in East Africa is one of the few spots on Earth being actively separated by tectonic activity and will ...

Massive hidden structures in Earth's mantle, called LLSVPs, shape tectonic activity, drive volcanoes, and reveal ancient ...

Ethiopia's Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The strongest, with a magnitude of 5.7, struck on 4 January. The US Geological Survey ...

Alfred Wegener published his proposal that continents had moved. He presented various lines of evidence, of which the best remembered is the fact that the opposite shores of the Atlantic ...

Bárðarbunga - the second-largest volcano in the country - has been hit with a swarm of 130 earthquakes within just five hours ...

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.

More than 130 earthquakes were registered Tuesday at Iceland's large Bardarbunga volcano, a possible precursor ... on top of a rift between two tectonic plates, which makes the island nation ...

Japan experiences earthquakes due to the interactions of four tectonic plates — the Pacific Plate, the Philippine Sea Plate, the Okhotsk Plate and the Eurasian Plate. Why are there so many volcanoes ...

Sanne Cottaar is Professor of Global Seismology in Earth Sciences. She wants to understand Earth’s inner structure: how it ...