Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Scientists have solved the mystery of how earthquakes can occur 420 miles deep inside Earth, where extreme pressure and heat ...

Amid Earth’s mobile tectonic plates, subduction zones arise as regions of intense geological activity and concentrate minerals into ore deposits like gold.

far from any known subduction zone. These anomalies could be remnants of ancient plates or accumulations of iron- or silica-rich rocks. These results, published in Scientific Reports, show that the ...

Waves that ripple from Earth's centre can be used to sense what it's made of, and where those materials might be found.

Greece's government has just declared a state of emergency on the island of Santorini, as earthquakes shake the island ...

The Pacific is one large plate so it should not have any subduction material under it anyway ... Alternatively they could be zones where iron-rich rocks accumulate as a consequence of mantle movements ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

The subterranean aquifer lurking in the mountains contains three times as much water as Lake Mead at full capacity.