Alaska had two magnitude 6.3 earthquakes in 2024, and they were the state’s largest quakes for the year, according to the ...

formed by delamination of the Earth's crust beneath them. Vera Schulte-Pelkum and Deborah Kilb used seismic waves to study the lower crust and upper mantle beneath the Sierra Nevada. Their analysis ...

Under the Sierra Nevada in California, scientists have observed a rare phenomenon that sheds light on the dynamics of the ...

The Aegean Sea is no stranger to earthquakes. It is laced with faults related to the slow collision between the African and ...

"While it remains challenging to definitely reject the existence of seismicity initiated in the ... our understanding of the dynamic processes in Earth's interior." More information: Hao Zhang ...

Nucleation and growth of Earth’s solid inner core has a crucial ... region characterised by flexural strain, according to the seismicity distribution and coseismic slip distributions of four ...

Volcanoes and earthquakes are both natural phenomena driven by the dynamic processes that shape Earth’s interior and surface.

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

More than 11,000 people have already left the island of Santorini following a series of tremors in recent days.