The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic ...

NEW YORK, March 20 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 jolted Mid-Indian Ridge at 21:00:09 GMT on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The epicenter, with a depth of 10.0 km ...

located at the eastern end of Broken Ridge - a particularly dangerous part of the Indian Ocean. Dr Vincent Lyne, a former researcher at the University of Tasmania, has claimed to have uncovered ...

That ridge, it was later discovered, extended through the major oceans of the world. It is now called the Mid-Ocean Ridge. In 1953, American physicists Maurice Ewing (1906-1974) and Bruce Heezen ...