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Scientists discover a giant 'gravity hole' in the Indian Ocean, and now they know the cause
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (936+ words) Earth carries an invisible ocean “water level” called the geoid. If only gravity and rotation shaped the oceans, the surface would match that geoid everywhere. However, south of India, the geoid sinks sharply. At the center of this sunken feature,…...
Largest 'nephrite jade' deposit on Earth is discovered in China Earth.com
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (980+ words) Beneath the dry hills of southern Xinjiang, geologists have identified a new source of intensely dark black jade called nephrite. The Margou deposit sits along a jade belt about 800 miles (1300 kilometers) long, and its black nephrite blocks look like lacquer....
650-foot mega-tsunami is captured by satellites and sends seismic waves around the world for nine days
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (912+ words) For years, Greenland’s rugged eastern coast sat in near silence. Then, in an instant, seismic sensors around the world started flashing with the same strange signal – a slow, steady pulse that kept going for nine straight days. Every 92 seconds, the…...
A volcano that erupted near Mayotte in 2018 brought something extraordinary to the surface: a material from Earth's birth 4.4 billion years ago
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (1109+ words) A young underwater volcano near Mayotte has carried a chemical memory of Earth’s birth all the way to the seafloor. And it’s an ancient one. Lava from Fani Maoré contains signs of mantle material formed within the planet’s first 100 million…...
Satellites capture the second largest tsunami in recorded history, caused by the collapse of an Alaskan mountain
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (908+ words) Most dangerous slopes give some warning. They creep downhill for months or years, leaving cracks that satellites and seismometers can track. Around Alaska’s glaciated fjords, that expectation shapes how monitoring teams decide when to issue alerts. The slope above Tracy…...
Scientists found signs that a fault in Türkiye made its own CO2 during an earthquake
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (876+ words) Carbon dioxide usually shows up in conversations about cars, factories, and volcanoes. These are slow, visible sources, operating on timescales of years or seasons. The science around them is fairly well understood. Geologists have long suspected another source – one that…...
New faults discovered in an area where devastating earthquakes are predicted
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (700+ words) Earthquakes usually feel sudden and unpredictable, but deep below the ground, slow and steady movement of tectonic plates shape the regions where strong seismic activity is likely to occur. One of the most complex earthquake zones in the United States…...
Maya calendar mystery has finally been solved after decades of trying
9+ mon, 1+ week ago (758+ words) For decades, a mysterious 819-day cycle in the Maya calendar has resisted every neat explanation for researchers. Now, a new analysis from Tulane University scholars shows it actually tracks the motion of all the visible planets. Instead of focusing on…...
How climate once fueled earthquakes at the cradle of humankind
9+ mon, 3+ week ago (1010+ words) In northern Kenya, there’s a massive desert lake called Lake Turkana. Scientists know it as something else entirely: one of the most important places on Earth for understanding where we come from. Its dry basin is filled with fossil clues…...
Massive earthquake in Myanmar ripped a 310-mile rupture through the Earth
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (819+ words) The powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck central Myanmar in March 2025 left behind more than shattered buildings and thousands of deaths. It also gave scientists a rare look at how some of the world’s most dangerous faults can unleash their full…...