Scientists discover enormous pockets of salty brine beneath the Pacific Ocean, key to understanding periodic underwater ...

Japan's new earthquake-sensing nervous system spans ocean fault zones, boosting tsunami warnings by up to 20 minutes and ...

An offshore earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.8 struck the northern Philippine province of Ilocos Norte on Tuesday ...

A strong Panama earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck off the coast, causing no injuries or tsunami warnings in the region.

A so-called "doomsday tsunami" is likely to hit the United States in the near future, but scientists now say there is a ...

Volcanoes are rumbling as scientists monitor earthquakes at Washington's Mount Rainier and Alaska's Iliamna volcano.

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the massive Ca ...

A 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday morning off the coast of Northern California, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake, centered in the Pacific Ocean about 40 miles ...