USGS recorded a 2.6 magnitude quake at 3:07 p.m. EST near Middlesboro. This event followed a 3.1 magnitude quake in Garrard–Madison on Dec. 28, 2025. Seismologist urges: drop, cover and hold on; do ...

The global mid-ocean ridge, with a total length over 65,000 km, is the longest volcanic chain on Earth. Hot magmas are extracted from the upwelling asthenosphere beneath the ridge axis to produce ...

"It's tearin' up my heart when I'm with you, but when we are apart, I feel it, too." Sure, it's a great opener to a pop song, but it also briefly describes what's happening to Africa. The continent is ...

There’s a giant blob of incredibly hot rock beneath New Hampshire — and it may be part of the reason the Appalachian Mountains are still standing tall, according to new research. It has, however, been ...

Scientists are investigating the cause of recent regional earthquake activity that affected Kentucky over the weekend. A small 2.8 magnitude earthquake was recorded in Nicholasville in the early ...

Plate tectonics involves the movements of 15 major and 40 minor lithospheric plates. Note that the Indo-Australian Plate is currently separating into two, which ...

Unsustainable irrigation and drought have emptied nearly all of the Aral Sea’s water since the 1960s, causing changes extending all the way down to Earth’s upper mantle, the layer beneath the planet’s ...

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The interplay between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere is central to the science of plate tectonics and greatly influences the geological processes and features we observe on the Earth’s surface.

The mechanism facilitating the smooth movement of the oceanic lithosphere over the underlying asthenosphere (upper mantle) remains poorly understood. Recently, researchers from Japan investigated the ...