We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to reveal underwater features, ...

This region is prone to major earthquakes because of movement from the Eurasian and Arabian tectonic plates ... Mars likely from a long gone ocean This global map of the ocean floor is based ...

NASA’s new video is also just fun to watch. The animation shows what the seafloor looks like off the coasts of Mexico, South America, and the Antarctic Peninsula. Research using data from SWOT is ...

More accurate maps based on data from the ... as well as geologic processes like plate tectonics. Underwater mountains called seamounts and other ocean floor features like their smaller cousins ...

The Pacific Coast is tiptoeing around not one but two of the largest seismic triggers of the region’s modern history.

Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar technology — sound waves that bounce off the bottom — to measure depth. But the ...

Tsunamis can travel thousands of kilometres across the ocean after an earthquake, volcanic eruption, or landslide ...

This new mapping capability will help plan routes for undersea communication cables, and even provide insights into tectonic ...

The socio-political differences between India’s north and south may have reduced with decades of assimilation but Hindu ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of the ocean floor ...

Trenches are created by plate tectonics and they often run roughly ... Meet the Spilhaus projection, an ocean-centric map of the world's waters. The Coral Triangle is a region of shallow ocean ...

There are five oceans recognized in the world, with the Southern Ocean being the most recent ... The name change to Gulf of America on Google Maps is visible only in the U.S. Outside of the ...