Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

Above the inner core is the outer core ... the two lies about 465 miles (750 kilometers) beneath the Earth's surface. The crust is the outermost layer of the Earth. It is the familiar landscape ...

The Earth has a layered structure made up of the core, the mantle and the crust. Different elements are present in different parts of the Earth’s structure. The crust is made from enormous ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

It’s here that Barbara Sherwood Lollar, a hydrogeologist at the University of Toronto, journeys into the planet’s crust to hunt for signs of life. “You get into a small truck or vehicle and go down a ...

Stable parts of the Earth's crust may not be as immovable as previously thought. While much of the crust is affected by plate tectonic activity, certain more stable portions have remained ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

The Earth consists of three layers: crust, mantle, and core. The Earth's crust is the outermost layer of the planet, consisting of solid rock that forms the Earth's surface. The mantle is the semi ...