Along the northwestern coast of North America, a curling crack in Earth’s crust tells the story of cataclysmic tectonic ...

There are even man-made earthquakes. Scientists say a huge fracking boom across the United States has left an earthquake ...

Scientists map over 200,000 underwater hills using SWOT satellite technology New discoveries in oceanography reveal extensive underwater terrain features and their significance to Earths evolution.

Today, the Denali Fault rips apart some of the North American plate, but it was once a place where tectonic plates came ...

A tsunami warning was initially issued for areas along the west coast of North America, but was rescinded by Thursday ...

Stretching 5,000 km along the Indian Ocean's 90-degree east longitude and nearly matching the length of North America's Rocky ... the movement of the Earth's tectonic plates.

A favorite in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh was given a royal charter by the Queen on March 25, 1584, which gave him seven years to establish a colony in the New World on the condition that ...

An international team of scientists on board a recent Schmidt Ocean Institute R/V Falkor (too) expedition surveyed nearly 20 ...

In California, the North American tectonic plate ... reached a magnitude of 7.0. This region of America is where some of the Earth’s tectonic plates meet, often resulting in friction that ...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History raised $150 million to bring its gallery of exhibits into the 21st Century.

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