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Located 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) below today’s seabed, the wavy sediments were formed during the Equatorial Atlantic Gateway ...
When standing in many places in Yellowstone National Park, the signs of a buried heat source are unmistakable, making one ...
Yellowstone is using a 53,000-pound vibrator truck to create custom-made earthquakes to study the supervolcano the park sits ...
A new study has investigated the use of a new monitoring technique for early warning of a volcanic eruption. The research team compared the earthquake signals during two eruptions of Ontake Volcano in ...
Scientists discovered a massive ocean hidden hundreds of kilometres beneath the Earth's surface a few years ago. Researchers ...
A major earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 struck in the South Atlantic Ocean off Chile and Argentina on Friday, prompting thousands in Chile to evacuate parts of the sparsely populated coast for ...
Although the dormant Uturuncu hasn’t erupted in 250,000 years, the volcano continually burps up gasses and regularly rumbles ...
What we’ve found is that this reservoir hasn’t shut down — it’s been sitting there for a couple million years, but it’s still ...
The Axial Seamount – located hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon and nearly 5,000 feet below the Pacific Ocean’s waves ...
Secondary gravity waves are ripples in the atmosphere created when primary gravity waves, like those triggered by a volcanic ...
For millions of years, Earth’s moving plates have sculpted continents, carved oceans, and built massive mountain ranges. Yet ...
Laboratory measurements of crushed quartz suggest earthquakes generate huge volumes of hydrogen underground, a potential ...