The estimated death toll from a 7.7-magnitude earthquake Friday that was centered in Myanmar, but which led to casualties in neighboring countries as well, is likely to be at least 10,000, according ...

The Valdivian Earthquake, or the Great Chilean Earthquake, is the largest on record. It measured in at a magnitude of 9.5.

This system is Earth’s structure, together with the internal workings and surface processes, that determine its evolution and current dynamic state. Our scientists study the Earth, and other planets, ...

Studying the tectonic forces within the Earth give rise to continents, ocean basins, mountain ranges, earthquake belts, and most volcanoes, along with the resulting deformation of geological ...

"The reason is that the high frequency content of the seismic waves of local earthquakes coincides with the frequency of vibration of these structures," Suárez explained. "It is similar to ...

TNO proudly presents the new edition of 'Geology of the Netherlands', a comprehensive reference work on the subsurface of the Netherlands. The book covers the geologic history of the past 420 million ...

The team has focused its efforts on the Durupinar formation, a 538-foot geological structure composed of limonite and located approximately 30 kilometers south of the summit of Mount Ararat ...

Plastic may have started a new geological era on our planet ... or packaging dates that allowed Hiemstra to date layers of the structures very accurately. “You flip through these nests like ...

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“And so they’ve got old structures in them that can continue to pop off in earthquakes from time to time.” The quake was widely felt throughout Townsville, with Geoscience Australia ...

This 2023 astronaut photo shows a series of slowly moving "star dunes" in the Erg Chebbi region of Morocco. Most of these massive structures are likely several centuries old.

2011), showing the LLVP (large red area) under Africa, made using the GPlates software. Credit: Jeroen Ritsema et al. Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous, continent-sized structures known as ...