Thursday night. The 1.8 magnitude quake happened just south of Jamestown, according to the United States Geological Survey. University of Rhode Island geosciences professor Brian Savage says although ...

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The towering mountains aren't simply standing on a firm, rigid, hard crust. There's also a fragment of hot molten mantle that ...

A 100-year-old theory explaining how Asia can carry the huge weight of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau needs to be rewritten, a new study suggests.

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit Nevada on Saturday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The earthquake shook parts of the state, with a shallow depth of 3.7 miles, the agency said. Reports ...

Some researchers believe faults are always near failure, so any natural, or tectonic, forces or human-related actions can bring faults to failure.

Some researchers believe faults are always near failure, so any natural, or tectonic, forces or human-related actions can bring faults to failure.

A planet's mantle - the vast layer that lies sandwiched between its crust and core - preserves crucial evidence about ...

Ground fissures and tectonic faults represent critical structural features within sedimentary basins, where the interplay of regional stress fields, depositional environments and, at times, human ...

Some researchers believe faults are always near failure, so any natural, or tectonic, forces or human-related actions can bring faults to failure.

Some researchers believe faults are always near failure, so any natural, or tectonic, forces or human-related actions can bring faults to failure.