Seismic wave data previously suggested the Earth’s hot inner core is slowing its spin. Now, researchers say it’s also ...

A new study shows that the inner core changed shape in just a few decades, challenging previous assumptions and revealing ...

A moderate earthquake, followed by three smaller quakes, shook California’s Northern Coast in Humboldt County Tuesday night, ...

A massive meteor strike on Mars sent shockwaves across the planet, revealing that some of its tremors weren’t tectonic but ...

A team of geologists and mineral physicists at Harvard University, the University of California, Argonne National Laboratory ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

A 3.8 magnitude earthquake off York Harbor, Maine, shook Seacoast New Hampshire, southern Maine and much of New England Monday. It caught the entire region by surprise, public safety dispatch centers ...

Medium-term risks to the baseline are tilted to the downside, while the near-term outlook is characterized by divergent risks. Upside risks could lift already-robust growth in the United States in the ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

MANILA — Two earthquakes jolted the Philippines several hours apart on Thursday, authorities said, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or major damage. A magnitude 5.8 quake occurred off ...

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the southern island of Mindanao, Philippines, GFZ said on Thursday, just hours after an earthquake of similar magnitude damaged buildings and a road in a town in ...

Slow waves "We have known for years that these islands are located at the boundary between the Earth's core and mantle. And we see that seismic waves slow down there." Earth scientists therefore call ...