• There may be a second massive ocean deep beneath the surface

    Chemically bonded to minerals in the transition zone, Earth's mantle may be rather wet… 

    Deep within the Earth, staggering pressures mix with high temperatures to compact regular materials into exotic minerals. Under these extreme conditions,

  • New swarm of earthquakes started at El Hierro, Canary Islands

    A new swarm of earthquakes started yesterday at El Hierro, Canary Islands. So far, almost 200 tiny quakes (none above magnitude 3 so far) have occurred in a broad N-S oriented area beneath the NE part of the island at around 18 km depth. 

    A possible explanation

  • Magnitude 6.1 earthquake struck Kyushu, Japan

    Earthquake registered as M 6.1 (JMA) struck Kyushu, Japan on March 13, 2014 at 17:07 UTC (02:07 JST on March 14). JMA is reporting depth of 80 km. USGS is reporting M 6.3 at depth of 82.9 km (51.5 miles).

    Epicenter was located 13 km (8 miles) N