Earth's Ediacaran Period, roughly 630 to 540 million years ago, has always been something of a magnetic minefield for ...

The models can help local authorities and communities by evaluating the potential for collapse long before ground may give ...

For people living near volcanoes, danger goes well beyond lava flows and clouds of ash. Some explosive eruptions can lead to dramatic collapses of the sides of a volcano, like those at Mount St.

Scientists have proposed a new explanation for Venus' giant, crown-shaped geological features, known as coronae.

September 2025/Potsdam/Kiel. Tens of thousands of earthquakes shook Santorini and its surroundings in January 2025. Researchers from the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences and the GEOMAR Helmholtz ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

In July 2024, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Calama, Chile, damaging buildings and causing power outages. The country has ...

The continents are in constant motion: Tectonic plates crash together and break apart, creating new crust while old crust is pulled below the surface. The process shrinks and widens oceans, uplifts ...

A Newsweek map shows the epicenters of two shallow earthquakes that struck in Turkey near the town of Sindirgi over a 24-hour period. The quakes registered at a 4.6 and a 5.1 magnitude, respectively, ...

The 1985 discovery of the Titanic was celebrated as a major leap in both technology and history. But what the world didn’t know was that this iconic expedition doubled as a classified U.S. Navy ...

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region, the US Geological Survey said. The major earthquake triggered a brief tsunami warning, the second-highest ...