The 2010 Haiti earthquake is estimated to have killed more than 300,000 at a cost equivalent to 120 percent of the prior year's GDP. Colombia began designing earthquake-resistant construction in the ...

As Colombia reels from one of the strongest earthquakes in its recorded history that killed at least 250, just weeks after ...

Latin America sits across some of the world's most active tectonic boundaries. Here's why earthquakes are frequent and when they become deadly disasters.

Ancient marine fossils found in Mount Everest’s summit rocks are fueling debate online, but geologists say they reveal the mountain’s seafloor origins.

A powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Colombia Monday morning, with shaking reported across a wide area of the country and the surrounding region. The earthquake struck ...

A Fredericktown geologist’s gravity-map analysis suggests a 124-mile ancient asteroid impact structure may lie beneath ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has recently been traveling up a Martian valley nicknamed “Valle Grande”, and has come across some ...

Digital rendering of the Atahensik corona on Venus and the Dali Chasma rift system—based on radar data from the Magellan ...

New sediment-provenance data date the closure of the southern Neotethys and the Arabia–Eastern Anatolia collision to 74–71 ...

A small earthquake was detected in Southern California Tuesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

For decades, scientists have debated whether the early Solar System endured one sudden, catastrophic wave of asteroid strikes ...