Geology

Trump has cited Venezuela’s oil resources as motivation for capturing the nation’s leader—here’s the geology behind the news

Antarctica’s New Year’s celebration is unlike any other: every January 1 scientists physically move the South Pole. This is why

Hawaii’s Kilauea, one of Earth’s most active volcanoes, sent lava fountains spewing into the air, obliterating a U.S. Geological Survey camera

The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly

A minor earthquake struck California in the early hours of the morning on November 26

New work pinpoints the origins of the planet Theia, whose ancient collision with Earth likely produced the moon

A ridiculous but instructive thought experiment involving deep time, plate tectonics, erosion and the slow death of the sun

Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better understand storms today and those from the past

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in quick succession over the past 3,000 years

Up to 98 percent of the energy of an earthquake goes into flash heating rocks, not shaking the ground, new research shows. The finding could help yield better earthquake forecasts

The San Francisco Bay Area was rattled early this morning by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake along the Hayward fault line