Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an ...

Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

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

A 7.6-magnitude earthquake in the Caribbean Sea Saturday triggered tsunami warnings for Cuba and the Cayman Islands and ...

A Tsunami Advisory was issued on Saturday evening following 7.6 magnitude earthquake, which occurred southwest of the Cayman ...

Analysis of historical earthquake records and interseismic deformation across the East Anatolian Fault Zone suggests that coseismic slip in the 2023 earthquakes strongly corresponded to the slip ...

A stunning new study is challenging the conventional wisdom about Earth’s continents. For years, we’ve been taught that Earth ...

New study questions whether the continents, North America and Europe, ever completely split apart tens of millions of years ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only ...

Understanding plate tectonics is key to grasping how the Earth’s geology works and how oceans and continents came to be. These massive slabs, part of the lithosphere, meet at their edges where all the ...

The fact that the cold, dry Mars of today had flowing rivers and lakes several billion years ago has puzzled scientists for decades. Now, Harvard researchers think they have a good explanation for ...