They tend to inflate like a balloon in between eruptions. At Axial, the sea floor is actually rising, and that’s a big signal.” ...

Kamala Harris asking the Democratic Party to be more like African elephants was more on point than she probably intended.

A 2.8 magnitude earthquake struck central Virginia on Tuesday afternoon, the United States Geological Survey reported. The ...

A part of Northern Africa is slowly splitting apart from the rest of the continent and may eventually create a whole new ...

Volcanoes are among nature’s most powerful forces — breathtaking yet potentially catastrophic. According to a visual produced ...

Melting glaciers 10,000 years ago sped up continental drift and volcanic activity, a process that could repeat as modern ice ...

More news about our planet: Sign up for USA TODAY's Climate Point newsletter. The earth we stand on ‒ the ground, not the planet Earth ‒ sits atop large masses known as tectonic plates. Those plates ...

Authorities emphasized that the earthquake in the U.S. has no direct impact on Thailand, as the two countries lie on separate ...

An analysis of minerals in the Minnesota gneiss and gneisses from across the country indicate that it’s probably not even the oldest in the United States ... or crushed by tectonic forces ...

River Plate’s group is living up to its billing as one of the toughest in the tournament, with Universitario’s 1-0 win over Barcelona SC tightening the standings across the board ahead of a crucial ...

These findings have raised urgent scientific questions about the stability of one of Earth’s most active tectonic zones. The Indian Plate, which has been colliding with the Eurasian Plate for about 60 ...

Scientists have recently found new seismic data that shows that the Indian tectonic plate isn’t just sliding under the Eurasian plate as once believed, it’s actually splitting in two deep ...