A string of earthquakes has hit Washington in recent weeks. Are they connected, and do they tell us anything about the odds of a larger quake?

As we leave you, a bushfire emergency warning is in place for parts of Throssell, Quellington and Wilberforce, south of Northam in WA’s Wheatbelt region. Residents in an area bounded by Carter ...

And there are vast stores of gas still available to be tapped. Gas production is limited less by geology than the availability of pipelines to pump it to market. The country, Myers said ...

The temblor that jolted the National Capital Region early on Monday (February 17, 2025) was a result of naturally occurring variation in the geological features of the region and not due to plate ...

In-situ material heterogeneity means it occurred due to variation in geological features in the region. Delhi is placed in seismic zone IV in the seismic zoning map of India, the second highest in ...

The summit of Mount Everest is the highest elevation on our planet, hardly obscure but still a mystery: Geoscientists continue to puzzle over the mechanisms that moved (and continue to move) the ...

K.Gilbert, of the United States Geological Survey, the moon was formed by the aggregation of a ring of meteorites which once encircled the earth, and the “craters,” instead of arising from the ...

At the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, we continue to celebrate a huge milestone--more than 100 years as a college at the University of Oklahoma! Established in 1924, it was the fourth ...

Geology is the study of Earth's history, composition and evolution. We tackle this through a multidisciplinary programme stretching from understanding Earth materials, internal processes that cause ...

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