The fault that produced the earthquake lies between two pieces of hard rock sandwiching a slippery clay layer, allowing for ...

Schmidt Ocean Institute announced it has mapped two million square kilometers of seafloor — about the size of Greenland — and ...

What if all the Earth's land became ocean, and all the oceans became land? And what if our mountains turned into deep ...

If you traveled to the deepest points of Earth, what would you find? Lost cities, mythical sea monsters, rivers of gold? Probably not. But there is still a lot to discover. So join me as we travel ...

According to a study published in the journal Science, researchers can now explain why the earthquake off the Japanese coast ...

Geologists from Heriot-Watt are part of an international team that has confirmed why the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake off northeast Japan behaved in such an extreme and destructive way.

In late October, Storm Benjamin blew across Belgium and other parts of Western Europe, bringing strong winds and rain that ...

Halalaimus is a microscopic nematode genus commonly found in sediment on the seafloor. It lives 1–5 cm below the sediment ...

An international research expedition involving Cornell has uncovered new details as to why a 2011 earthquake northeast of ...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest ocean trench in the world, located in the Pacific Ocean. Learn about its depth, location, ...