New evidence suggests current estimates about tsunami size and how quickly waves make it to shore may be too high and too ...

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

An illustration depicting the formation of TTGs in a two-stage mantle plume-sagduction model.Image credit: Adapted from Zhao, ...

New research has dramatically reshaped our understanding of Earth’s early geological history, overturning traditional beliefs ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

“Magma movement is often guided by structural features of the crust ... the volcano to really understand the deepest part of ...

The formation of Heart Mountain near Cody is a story of a block of rock the size of Rhode Island moving at 700 mph, an ...

By identifying more ancient subduction zones, they hope to create a global map of buried ... be discovered in Earth’s deep interior,” Wang stated. Each of these hidden features could offer new ...

Neighbors for a Better Crossing is urging a new seismic study before construction proceeds on the $7.5 billion IBR project, ...