Hundreds of Indonesians fled for higher ground Wednesday as they ran through disaster drills in the region worst hit by the ...

One of the most puzzling phenomena lies beneath the Indian Ocean, south of Sri Lanka, where a massive gravity anomaly known as the Indian Ocean Geoid Low (IOGL) has confounded researchers for decades, ...

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

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

The Earth's tectonic plates—massive pieces ... the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. Here’s an overview of ...

Everest, about 60 million years ago, was the rapid movement of India northward toward the continent of EuroAsia; Click here for a present-day map of the Indian ... Earth's tectonic plates like ...

Earthquakes are among the most powerful natural forces on Earth, often causing widespread devastation, triggering tsunamis and altering the landscape of a region. But how strong was the strongest ...