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

Axial Seamount doesn’t pose a threat to humans, but observing what happens before and after its potential eruption could help scientists learn about submerged volcanoes and strengthen ...

Before the advent of radium, geologists had not recognized the difficulties presented by the peculiar chemical constitution of the earth's crust ... rejection of the facts, but simply a re ...

journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a long, winding roadway that corkscrews down into the Earth,” she tells The Scientist. By ...

Scientists of course cannot cut into Earth and directly observe its insides. Instead, their knowledge is inferred from the ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...