A new autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) imaged a previously unexplored portion of the seafloor in ultra-deep waters near ...

TOKYO: Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, ...

A decades-old manga has Japan on edge as fresh earthquakes hit the countrys south. Despite scientists stressing that quakes ...

Eight months after officials plunged shovels into dirt for a ceremonial ground-breaking, phase 1 of the project — which, for ...

In the Indian Ocean, where the deadliest tsunami in history killed nearly 230,000 people in 2004, most of them in Indonesia, a similar disaster has been forecast for sometime within the next 30 years.

A new autonomous underwater vehicle is helping scientists understand some of the planet’s least explored regions. <br /><br ...

In a scientific first, researchers have tracked the elusive motion of a rare variety of earthquake during a seismic event ...

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The bold question-askers at What If take you deep into five ocean trenches that few humans have ever explored.

at Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, NOAA noted. The predecessor of the Pacific Ocean was Panthalassa, or the Panthalassic Ocean, which was once Earth's only ocean. This world-spanning superocean ...

Amanda Dedicatoria described towering hydrothermal vents rising from the ocean floor like underwater skyscrapers. Just hours ...