earthquakes

Planet Earth went through its fair share of upheavals in 2019, from earthquakes to volcanic eruptions to alterations caused by human activity.

It seems that at some point after astronauts visited the moon, a powerful moonquake sent boulders tumbling across the lunar surface. Here's what they tell us.

A gaping hole in a dying tectonic plate beneath the ocean along the West Coast of the United States may be wreaking havoc at Earth's surface, but not in a way most people might expect.

A mud-volcano island that burst from the waters off the coast of Pakistan during a deadly earthquake in 2013 has disappeared beneath the waves.

Japanese satellite shows where the ground was broken up and even sliced open during the twin earthquakes near Ridgecrest.

Even so, the chance of big quakes near Ridgecrest, California, decreases with time.

It's possible that the recent quakes could be the straw that broke the camel's back for the San Andreas Fault, which is way overdue for a major rupture.

Scientists discover 1.8 million previously undetected earthquakes in the Golden State.

NASA's TESS mission has, for the first time, detected a planet orbiting a star with visible starquakes.

Earthquakes may be dumping millions of tons of carbon into the Earth's deepest cracks. And scientists aren't sure what that means.