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Officials say a strong earthquake has hit Russia's North Caucasus region, an uncommon occurrence for the region.

In a high-tech version of those baking soda-and-vinegar experiments at science fairs, scientists have simulated a key stage of volcanic eruptions where steam and other fluids rushing through cracks in ...

The U.S. Geological Survey is reporting an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 3.1 struck at about 4:19 p.m. Friday near Piedmont.

An early morning earthquake shook homes and woke residents in the Highlands, in the north of Scotland.

PUZZLE: Is there a common thread or were events just coincidence? Published: October 10th, 2008 02:03 AM Last Modified: October 10th, 2008 02:18 AM How likely is it that three neighboring volcanoes would all ...

Scientists have recreated conditions found in an erupting volcano in the laboratory, offering a new way to understand and forecast future damaging eruptions.

Lava pours out of Montserrat during an eruption. Researchers have used observations to create a new model that better explains what happens beneath the volcano's surface.

Geologists in Jammu and Kashmir have questioned the safety of the 900-MW Baglihar hydroelectric power project across the Chenab river that is to be inaugurated Friday, as 'it is built over an active geological ...

It's a corridor crammed with lifelines: the power lines, gas pipes, railroads, freeway and water pipes that fuel the daily lives of San Bernardino County residents.

Portland's west hills are notorious for landslides because of the steep slopes in the area and homes perched on hillsides at steep angles.

BISHKEK. October 7. KAZINFORM. Rescuers toiled yesterday in a remote mountain village close to Kyrgyzstan's border with China searching for survivors of a powerful earthquake that killed at least 74 people, 41 ...

About 5 percent of Alaska's area is covered by more than 100,000 glaciers - which is about 29,000 square miles.

Mount Aspiring National Park tramping tracks, below a large lake created by a massive rockslide over a year ago, are to be reopened to the public.

The Nature Conservancy is negotiating to buy more than 1,700 acres of ranch land near Lower Table Rock.

A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 72 people, emergency officials said Monday.

In geology as in cancer research, the silver bullet theory always gets the headlines and nearly always turns out to be wrong.

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Narrow wooden boxes line a laboratory wall, holding chunks of sandstone from Holland's deep underground formations, dating back at least 550 million years.

In places, these changes began as early as the middle of the 18th century. Although more than 99 percent of Alaska's large glaciers are retreating, a handful, surprisingly, are advancing.

This once-gushing, oil-producing town could be returning to its century-and-a-half old mining roots if the "black gold" of Florence Oil Field continues to show a viable pool of crude oil.