Two diamonds formed 700 kilometers below the Earth's surface reveal a life-giving synchronicity between shifting continents ...

By modeling dehydration-driven fluid pressure, a new study links deep fluids to where megathrust earthquakes end and slow slip begins.

In fault gouge, fluids drive chemical healing by cementing grains, a mechanism for seismic slip in rocks frictionally ...

Europe’s tallest active volcano, Mount Etna, may belong to an obscure group of volcanoes shaped by magma in an unusual way.

Then, at 6:04 p.m. ET, an M7.2 foreshock rocked the northeast coast of Venezuela, immediately followed by an M7.5 mainshock.

Tiny earthquakes that emerge in a strikingly linear pattern revealed the Yakutat microplate, which may be focusing volcano ...

Mount Etna in Italy is one of the most well-studied volcanoes in the world. It has been erupting for thousands of years, and ...

An artist's render of Mars. (Kevin M. Gill/Flickr/CC BY 2.0) For decades, our picture of Mars was of a dead desert world. Its ...

The country was hit hard by a pair of quakes that happened in quick succession and were likely driven by stress being ...

A 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook Mindanao on Friday, with no immediate reports of casualties or major damage. The tremor has ...

Scientists have uncovered a new explanation for what powers Yellowstone and other supervolcanoes. Instead of a deep plume rising from near Earth’s core, a broad “mantle wind” may push hot rock beneath ...

A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck western Nicaragua on Friday, capping a week marked by intense seismic activity across ...