Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...
Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...
South Carolina has high seismic activity despite not being on a plate boundary. Scientists still don't know the answer for ...
For decades, seismologists have worked to understand and predict earthquakes, but forecasting remains elusive. Now, ...
The warming of the planet and changing climate are having adverse effects on ecosystems around the world, even down to tiny ...
In the journal Chaos, researchers in Japan explore the likelihood that Earth’s climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they ...
Japanese scientists have discovered new significant correlations between solar activity and earthquakes, according to recent ...
“Such fluctuations can make rocks more brittle and prone to fracturing, for example - and changes in rainfall and snowmelt ...