A massive, mysterious hole has been discovered in the Indian Ocean, and scientists are unraveling what lies beneath.

The Geological Survey of India (GSI) will send a team to the Baratang Island to investigate the recent eruption of India's only active mud volcano, a senior official said on Sunday. Speaking to PTI, ...

Speaking to PTI, GSI's Deputy Director General Shantanu Bhattacharjee said the volcano was dormant for more than two decades, and the October 2 eruption seemed to have happened due to tectonic ...

A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck near the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka peninsula on Saturday, according to the US Geological Survey. The US Tsunami warning system issued a threat following the ...

Today at about 11:30am local time, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula in the country's far east. Originating at a depth of roughly 20 kilometers, today's ...

Santa Barbara’s waterfront played host to history this past weekend as members of the storied Explorers Club gathered to honor Dr. Robert Fisher — a pioneering oceanographer who, at 100 years old, is ...

Rocks in Australia preserve evidence that plates in Earth’s crust were moving 3.5 billion years ago, a finding that pushes back the beginnings of plate tectonics by hundreds of millions of years.

In one of Earth’s most geologically active regions, East Africa is experiencing a profound transformation. Beneath the surface, tectonic plates are gradually pulling apart, with the potential to ...

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Subduction zones, where one tectonic plate dives underneath another, drive the world’s most devastating earthquakes and tsunamis. How do these danger zones come to be? A study in Geology presents ...