Did you know the Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped zone around the Pacific Ocean, has about 750 to 915 active or dormant ...

West Iceland's volcano is a rift activity volcano, which involves the earth being pulled apart in two different directions ...

A new study highlights the tsunami threat facing Southland, where a nearby earthquake zone is thought capable of unleashing ...

The study’s lead author, Dr Caroline Orchiston of the University of Otago, said much of that threat came from the Puysegur ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

This quake occurred in an active area below the Pacific Ocean where hundreds of quakes ... the Pacific and Juan de Fuca plates. The Cascadia subduction zone runs just off the Oregon and Washington ...

Off the coast of Chile and Peru, along the entire western length of South America, the seafloor takes a sharp, steep plunge ...

Researchers from the Schmidt Ocean Institute spotted the animal while using an underwater robot to scour the seabed.

The Schmidt Ocean Institute also used the post to share a bit more about the importance of the Chile Margin expedition. "It runs the entire length of South America due to the subduction of the ...