A new landform has been taking shape on one of Washington, D.C.'s municipal golf courses: a pile of dirt imported from the ...

Around 1,000 people registered online that they felt the earthquake, according to the Maryland Geological Survey.

Herc Rentals says local growth is being restricted by the high interest-rate environment, while mega projects are helping ...

Residents who have vowed to fight the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s proposal to drain Horseshoe Lake and Lower Shaker Lake fired their first legal shot Tuesday, formally warning local ...

For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic ...

Researchers discovered a way to listen to Arctic ice tremors as it moves. Their findings reveal how warming changes the ice’s ...

An earthquake is caused by a sudden slip on a fault, according to USGS. Tectonic plates are always slowly moving, but they get stuck at their edges due to friction. When the stress on an edge ...

Per the ESA, this phenomenon can be best explained by strange behaviors far within the Earth at the boundary where the Earth's liquid outer core meets the rocky mantle layer. This boundary, referred ...

A major earthquake hasn’t struck any of California’s biggest cities in more than three decades, but the “Big One” is a matter ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nilakshi Veerabathina, University of Texas at Arlington (THE CONVERSATION) ...