Kamchatka Peninsula: Russia's Restless Eastern Edge 8 earthquake struck at a depth of 35 km off the far eastern coast of ...

The Pacific Ring of Fire is living up to its name, with scientists tracking a chain of restless faults and volcanoes that ...

The Ring of Fire is an enormous belt of active and dormant volcanoes that surrounds most of the Pacific Ocean. It runs from southern Chile, up the west coast of the Americas, through the islands off ...

The map highlights in yellow the zones of the Pacific Plate that are being pulled apart by the sinking tectonic plate along the Pacific Ring of Fire. TORONTO, ON – New research led by a team of ...

Natural disasters affect many parts of the world, but few countries experience them as frequently and as intensely as ...

Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing "icehouse" periods ...

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on July 29 may have been one of the 10 largest ever recorded on the planet, but it wasn't totally unprecedented. The ...

MELBOURNE, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanic eruptions, may have triggered major climate transitions between ancient ice ages and warm periods, ...

Carbon released from Earth's spreading tectonic plates, not volcanoes, may have triggered major transitions between ancient ...