A remote volcano in Russia’s far east has roared back to life in spectacular fashion, unleashing two violent explosions ...

The Rocky Mountains have always looked like a geological non sequitur, a towering spine of peaks sitting far from the ...

Mass extinctions are extremely catastrophic events on Earth. Throughout Earth's evolutionary history, numerous mass ...

The North American craton actually dips near the Rockies rather than forming a sharp vertical step as previously believed.

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international research team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off ...

Scientists say the undersea plate boundary beneath the Strait of Gibraltar, known as the Gibraltar arc, will move into the Atlantic after a long lull, with acceleration expected in about 20 million ...

Even long-lived subduction zones eventually die, and scientists believe they are witnessing the slow death of one in the northern end of the Cascadia subduction zone. A new study using seismic data ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

With the upcoming UC Davis Graduate and Law School Fair, undergraduate students will get the opportunity to explore graduate school opportunities. Nathalie Redick, a second-year graduate student in ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Scientists say there's new evidence that two of the best-known earthquake fault lines on the West Coast are in sync and that has the potential for a major disaster. A new study by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Workers check damage to Interstate 880 in Oakland after it collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. (Paul ...