Researchers say a deadly earthquake in Japan and 2023’s most powerful solar flare occurring back-to-back can’t be a ...

Researchers have proposed that changes in Earth's ionosphere could trigger electrical forces that nudge fragile areas of the crust into creating an earthquake.

Stanford scientists have developed a new method for identifying rare earthquakes in the Earth’s upper mantle, under the ...

Like a moth in a cocoon, the metamorphosis of Earth's crust from molten goop to solid land is hidden from view, leaving scientists to guess at how the eons-long process unfolds. Using nearly four ...

Seismologists studying earthquake patterns in California have uncovered extraordinary evidence of a rare geological process deep beneath the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Known as lithospheric ...

Geologists have spent decades trying to punch through Earth’s crust to reach the mantle, the vast rocky layer that makes up most of the planet’s volume. In 2023, an international team working from a ...

Scientists at Stanford have unveiled the first-ever global map of rare earthquakes that rumble deep within Earth’s mantle rather than its crust. Long debated and notoriously difficult to confirm, ...

First global map of mantle earthquakes reveals seismic activity far beneath continents, challenging old ideas about Earth’s ...

(Left) Schematic illustration of a kink structure. (Center) Kink bands observed in mudstone near Fort Island, Rhode Island. (Right) Large-scale kink structure in Southern California, USA. Your first ...