Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford researchers mapped rare mantle earthquakes worldwide, revealing clusters near the Himalayas and the Bering Strait.

A major, 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Monday, according to the United States ...

Earthquakes that jiggle Earth's middle layer may be more widespread than scientists thought. A new map of these mysterious deep earthquakes shows that they occur all around the world and that they may ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in our planet's mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...

A Newsweek map shows the epicenters of two shallow earthquakes that struck in Turkey near the town of Sindirgi over a 24-hour period. The quakes registered at a 4.6 and a 5.1 magnitude, respectively, ...

A team of researchers have been studying how deep inside the Earth, underground earthquakes are reshaping the very planet we ...