The multi-year pursuit by the Ocean Beach School District for state dollars to address seismic vulnerabilities at its Ilwaco ...

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

Researchers from the Schmidt Institute of Oceanography have spotted a strange animal at the junction of three tectonic plates ...

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

University of Maryland researchers have found intriguing new evidence of ancient seafloor deep beneath the Earth's surface.

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

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

Names associated with the ocean (or water in general) hold a special place in my heart. One of my friends who lives with his family out in California lives near the ocean, and all of them have names ...

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

Large earthquakes are common at subduction boundaries, and often result in massive displacement at the ocean bed which generates very large tsunamis. Although there are areas of subduction in the ...

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