Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...

After suspecting the presence of a series of underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands, researchers have now mapped out the ...

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world's oceans.

The deep oceans are far from flat. They feature ridges, trenches, seamounts, and valleys, creating a diverse and dramatic ...

The US Geological Survey (USGS) said on its website it had detected the quake around 10:26am PT (1:30pm ET) near Bombay Beach ...

The movement of these tectonic plates leads to earthquakes and volcanoes ... like at the San Andreas Fault in the USA, which forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North ...

USGS shows an interactive map of where the 3.9 magnitude quake ... Nearly 300 people reported they could feel the quake, according to the United States Geological Survey. Residents in the ...

Educating the educators means these teachers engage in hands-on learning experiences during a two-day workshop hosted, in ...

Earthquakes occur as a result of the constant—but, to us, imperceptibly slow—movement of tectonic plates across the ... Pictured: a map of the earthquake data analyzed by the researchers.

The image below shows a bathymetric map of the ocean floor ... and improbable," according to the United States Geologic Survey: plate tectonics. The Pacific Ocean is riven with oceanic trenches ...