Many of the world’s biggest earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tsunamis occur along a chain of seismologically active ...

A large region of unusually hot rock deep beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the United States could be linked to Greenland ...

Large region of unusually hot rock beneath the Appalachian Mountains in teh USA is linked to the splitting of Greenland and ...

A new geochronology of Mesozoic magmatism along the eastern margin of North America shows that continental breakup involved ...

Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, the area in which a magnitude 8.8. earthquake occurred on July 29, is within the so-called "ring of fire." ...

The Pacific Northwest boasts an extensive network of more than 600 seismic monitoring stations that help researchers track ...

A handful of regions around the world regularly unleash terrifyingly large earthquakes. Here are the 21 largest earthquakes ...

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the ...

Millions of people were evacuated, as minds cast back to the devastating tsunami of Boxing Day 2004 in the Indian Ocean and ...

Kamchatsky, a coastal city in Russia’s Far East, at 11:24 pm Indian time on July 29. The earthquake area falls in the ...

A hot blob currently beneath the Appalachians may have peeled off from Greenland around 80 million years ago and moved to where it is today at a rate of 12 miles per million years, scientists have ...

It was one of the strongest tremors in recorded history, but Wednesday's megathrust earthquake brought less tsunami damage ...