Despite low risk, the UK must consider seismic activity in dam design, driving updates to national hazard maps.

How can rocks in the Alps, the Apennines, and the Balkans share a common origin when they sit on opposite sides of seas and ...

Deep beneath Northern California’s rugged coastline, scientists have mapped a tangle of hidden faults that could generate earthquakes as powerful as magnitude 8. The newly identified hotspot sits ...

A hidden chunk of an ancient tectonic plate is stuck to the Pacific Ocean floor and sliding under North America, complicating earthquake risk at the Cascadia subduction zone.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A University of Derby team says the Atlantic divide may be incomplete. Iceland and the Davis Strait could hold stranded ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods and warm "greenhouse" states.

The 2026 NFL playoffs roll on with four more Wild Card Weekend matchups. The top seeds -- Seattle in the NFC and Denver in the AFC -- received byes and will await their Divisional Round opponents. On ...

New research challenges conventional wisdom by demonstrating that mid-ocean ridges and continental rifts, not volcanic ...

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