An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck Nepal on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. As per the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 10km, making it ...

Nepal has a long history of earthquakes, including devastating events like the 2015 earthquake. Earlier on April 26, a minute's silence was observed for 8,969 victims who lost their lives on April 25 ...

Nepal is highly earthquake-prone due to its location on a convergent boundary where the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates ...

Plants and trees send their roots into the ground to soak up water and nutrients from the soil. Until now, scientists ...

If the new age of these Canadian rocks is solid, they would be the first and only ones known to have survived Earth’s earliest, tumultuous time.

Scientists found that the speed at which continents split apart directly influences how molten rock flows deep beneath ...

Explore the Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismically active region around the Pacific Ocean known for earthquakes and volcanoes.

Ancient magma plume found beneath Oman’s Salma Plateau remains hidden Researchers believe the buried plume redirected India’s ...

A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

Radar and gravity records from NASA’s Magellan orbiter show that Venus' surface is still shifting and is not geologically ...

A number of flights to the Indonesian resort island of Bali were cancelled and operations at the airport in Maumere in East Nusa Tenggara province were suspended due to the eruption of Mount Lewotobi ...

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.