For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself ...

The Grand Canyon is a gigantic geological library, with rocky layers that tell much of the story of Earth’s history.

A fresh analysis of rocks from one of these periods, the Ediacaran (about 630-540 million years ago), aims to solve a ...

The earthquake comes two months after the deadliest quake in recent Afghan history, which killed thousands of people.

Scientists have traced the origins of complex life to the breakup of the supercontinent Nuna 1.5 billion years ago. This ...

A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 6.3 jolted northern Afghanistan early on Monday morning, causing at least seven ...

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ...

Local emergency agencies say they are monitoring the seismic activity but have not issued any tsunami warnings.

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake rattled northern Afghanistan overnight, striking at a depth of 28 km near Kholm, close to ...