KOCHI: Twenty years ago — on December 26, 2004 — deep beneath the Indian Ocean near the island of Sumatra, a 1,300km-long rupture occurred on the faultline betw ...

John Sclater, a geophysicist at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and a member of the first wave of ...

The volcanology agency said it was keeping the highest alert status for the volcano, which remains very active.

In a groundbreaking scientific achievement, researchers have successfully drilled the deepest-ever core sample from Earth's ...

The Ring of Fire is a string of Pacific volcanoes. Eruptions are a constant threat for Indonesia and other nations ...

Beneath the waves of the South Pacific lies Zealandia, a submerged landmass spanning nearly two million square miles. Often ...

We are sailing under a blanket of heavy fog somewhere between Canada and the southern reaches of Greenland in the Labrador ...

The mediterranean sea straddles two tectonic plates and is lined by large towns and cities. We need to take the tsunami ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

U.K. deal will likely draw attention to France, another European sovereign state with contested territories in the Indian Ocean region like Tromelin Island.