While it is often said that mountains don’t move, in reality, the Colorado Rocky Mountains are the result of a slow dance that has been occurring beneath the earth’s surface for hundreds of ...

This movement results in deep ocean trenches, volcanic eruptions, and earthquake epicenters along the boundaries where the plates meet, called fault lines. The Ring of Fire is home to the deepest ...

An underwater fault line along the US West Coast could trigger a megaquake that would be more devastating than California's ...

We live on the New Madrid Fault line, which is the most seismically active region east of the Rockies. In 1811, a massive and unprecedented series of earthquakes shook the region. “And what they ...

Writers, dramatic and vain by nature, seem particularly ill-suited to offer wisdom. Perhaps there are some lessons to be gleaned from a lifetime of reading and typing, but if they exist they’ve ...

The latest set of eruptions that rocked Grindavik, a small fishing town in southwest Iceland, have confirmed that the faultline resting beneath has awakened. The recent volcanic activity in the ...

Palestinians search for casualties at the site of an Israeli strike on a house in the southern Gaza Strip last week If this Gaza war was like all the others, a ceasefire would probably have been ...

This fault line has now all but disappeared. But are new fault lines likely to emerge in Europe, and if so, where? Not so fast. Klaus Goetz is a European specialist at the London School of ...

Happy Friday! The Annals of Improbable Research magazine hosted the 34th annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at MIT yesterday. The awards—not to be confused with the illustrious Nobel Prize ...

The vice president is relying on tax proposals as a way to show she is different from both President Biden and her Republican rival, Donald Trump. By Andrew Duehren Vice President Kamala Harris is ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers ...