Measurements of seismic waves over many years suggest the Earth's core is deformed and reshaped by conditions of extreme heat ...

Maletsunyane Falls in the Lesotho Highlands shows how a river can erode deep valleys into uplifted lands. Jacques Marais via Getty Images Considering how long humans have been on Earth, it’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers from a renowned U.S. university captured a slow slip earthquake in motion. It was captured during the act of releasing ...

Beneath our seemingly stable world, Earth's deep interior is actively shifting. Scientific research reveals that dense rock ...

Using an unprecedented amount of high-resolution satellite data, researchers have found that Earth’s fault lines are far weaker—and continents far less rigid—than long-standing geological models ...

Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean. The slow earthquake was ...

Scientists at the Florida Institute of Technology recently captured a beautiful lightning storm using a new high speed camera. The lightning in this video was recorded at 7,000 frames per second (fps) ...

Researchers re-created the conditions deep inside the Cascadia subduction zone and found that fractured rocks can repair themselves during, or just hours after, slow-motion earthquakes. When you ...

Researchers from a renowned U.S. university captured a slow slip earthquake in motion. It was captured during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at the bottom of the ocean. A ...