Geology

The New Madrid Fault Line is constantly releasing pressure these days. Already 9 very shallow earthquakes have hit near Lilbourn, Missouri since September 30, 2019.

Papua New Guinea's volatile Ulawun volcano erupted early Tuesday, October 1, sending a column of red lava shooting up into the sky and forcing the evacuation of recently returned residents.

A M5.6 earthquake hit 180km (112 miles) east of El Hierro, the smallest and youngest island of the Canary Islands, on September 26, 2019. The tremors were recorded...

A strong M6.8 earthquake hit off the coast of Maule, Chile at 15:57 UTC (10:57 local time) on September 29, 2019. No tsunami expected although the quake...

A volcanic eruption produced the loudest sound in the world. The sound of the Krakatoa eruption in 1883 caused shock waves 10,000 times more powerful than that of...

The world needs to do more to prepare for the next huge volcanic eruption, a team of leading scientists says. They insist we need to do more to...

Despite all the attention directed toward the supervolcano, experts monitoring activity at the park around the clock say it isn’t an eruption we should be immediately concerned about... It’s earthquakes.

It’s not just the West Coast that needs to watch out for tectonic obliteration. Today, the New Madrid Zone was hit by two small earthquakes: M2.8 and M3.1...

A high-resolution map of surface displacements indicates that the 2017 Chiapas earthquake caused substantial creep along a segment of the San Andreas Fault. They are both separated by...

M6.1 earthquake hits Argentina september 26, 2019. Map via USGS

Today, September 26, 2019, a M5.7 earthquake hit near Istanbul, Turkey, sending residents out of buildings and on to the streets. Meanwhile, scientists warn that a mega...

A strong earthquake struck Indonesia's eastern Maluku province earlier Thursday, september 25, 2019, killing at least three people and damaging a bridge, hospital and some other buildings. The...

Mount Hood is a potentially active stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc of northern Oregon. Researchers have discovered active fault lines on Mount Hood that could potentially trigger...

A deadly M5.8 earthquake hit Pakistan on September 24, 2019. Picture shows a crack in a road in Mirpur after the quake. At least...

A M6.0 earthquake hit Puerto Rico on September 24, 2019, 3:24 a.m. UTC at a depth of 6 miles (10 km). While there was not tsunami warning,...

While residents living near Piparo mud volcano, Trinidad and Tobago, reported hearing a loud explosion at 22:08 local time, on September 21, 2019. Heavy rain, strong winds...

Albania was rattled by its strongest earthquake in decades on Saturday, September 21, 2019. The M5.6 earthquake hit 6km N of Durres and sent people fleeing into the...

Just off the coast of Okinawa in southwestern Japan, a large reservoir is encasing massive amounts of an unknown gas in an area where the Earth’s crust is being pulled apart.

Anak Krakatau volcano erupted strongly on September 18, 2019. The unexpected surtseyan eruption at the crater lake of Anak Krakatau surprised observers with its dark ash and characteristic...

A strong and very deep M6.2 earthquake hit 73km NNE of Pendok, Indonesia at 2019-09-19 at 07:06:33 UTC or 2019-09-19 14:06:33 local time. The epicenter is situated at...

Preliminary Earthquake Report: Date/Time: 18.09.2019 08:55:06 UTC Magnitude: M 3.8 Mercalli Scale: 2 Depth: 14 km Coordinate: 14° 43.800, 93° 51.600 Additional data: Local time in the epicenter: Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 03:55 at night at epicenter Continent:...

There are no active fault zones in North Carolina. But one area of the North Carolina mountains has had eight small earthquakes within a week. Weird, no?

Mount St. Helens is most notorious for its major 1980 eruption. That volcanic event was the deadliest and most economically destructive in U.S. history. Below a before after...

Mount Karangetan volcano in central Indonesia is erupting since Thursday, spewing large plumes of ash in the sky. More than 50 people living on the slope of the...

A huge sinkhole opened up on a road in northern China's Lvliang, swallowing two cars on September 11, 2019. In the video, two cars can be seen inside...

A rare concentration of methane seeps from the sea floor off the Gisborne coast is being studied to understand their role in underwater landslides. This in turn will determine the...

A 3.7 magnitude earthquake rumbled parts of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas early Thursday, Sept. 12. The quake hit at 1:42 a.m. near Gassville, Arkansas, around the Missouri...

A thicket of red tape and regulations have made it difficult for volcanologists to build monitoring stations along Mount Hood and other active volcanoes. Mount Hood in Oregon...

A taxi driver had to sprint to freedom from his cab moments after it was swallowed up by an enormous sinkhole. The cabbie, named Guo, ran from...

There's a lost continent hidden below southern Europe. And researchers have created the most detailed reconstruction of it yet. Greater Adria existed 140 million...

Way back in 1811 and 1812, a series of over 1,000 earthquakes rocked the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Memphis. One was so powerful that it caused the river to run...

What people are already calling the “big one” is a M9.0 impending earthquake that is set to destroy most of the northwest region of the United States with huge 30 metre-high tsunami...

Volcanic eruptions are typically associated with death and destruction... But the recent eruptions on Hawaii’s Big Island resulted in an unexpected and gigantic plume of algae extending for...

Shallow M5.9 earthquake hits off Oregon coast on September 5 2019 Just about a week after a M6.3 earthquake hit 171 miles west, northwest of Bandon on Oregon’s...

The Taupo Volcano has produced two of the world’s most violent eruptions in geologically recent times. And today, September 4, 2019, Lake Taupo, in the centre of New Zealand’s North...

A strong but very deep earthquake hit 34km NNE of Ndoi Island in the Republic of Fiji, in the South Pacific Ocean, on September 1, 2019. The very deep earthquake...

Another strong earthquake hit off the Oregon Coast Thursday morning at 8:08 a.m. The M6.3 earthquake struck 171 miles west, northwest of Bandon on Oregon's south coast...

Take a river overflowing, add a funnel sucking up the water underground below the highway and a sinkhole in the middle of the road. And you are sure...

The Stromboli volcano in Italy erupted violently at around 10:17 UTC on August 28, 2019. This is one of the most powerful eruptions of the volcano in recent years....

Recently, the Kamchatka Peninsula is experiencing an upstick is volcanic activity with the Karymski and Shiveluch volcanoes exploding regularly. Well, this enhanced activity climaxed over the weekend with...