Bill would boost NOAA’s tsunami preparedness budget by 35%, require planning for a Pacific Northwest megaquake Read Story ...

Earth is constantly moving, although we don’t notice it. Deep beneath the ocean, far away from cities and human activity, huge geological processes are slowly ...

Earth's surface is covered by more than a dozen tectonic plates, and in subduction zones around the world—including the ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new ...

The Mendocino Triple Junction off the coast of Northern California is the point where three tectonic plates meet. A new study reveals at least five moving pieces deep below the Earth's surface make up ...

The catastrophic event, technically known as the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, occurred at the Japan Trench, an area off the country's east coast where the Pacific tectonic plate is being pushed ...

Do this week’s strong geomagnetic storm and earthquake in Japan mean that the Big One is nigh? That’s what some influencers on TikTok believe. On Tuesday, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, ...

Minor earthquakes happen in and around New York more often than many people realize. This map shows where they've struck over ...