The prestigious Earthquake Research Centre (ERC) which successfully recorded the date of nuclear explosion in Pakistan and Pokhran in May, 1998, failed to record the recent tremors in the Hindukush

The sea floor in the Arabian Sea is expanding by five cm a year leading to increasing seismic activity in the Koyna region of western Maharashtra which has seen more than a lakh tremors in the past

Geoscientists: The icy South Pole was once warm, with tropical rainforests, geoscientists said on Saturday on their return from a two-month trip aboard a drill ship, digging up dirt from beneath the

Scientists: Scientists in Britain say that the earth is at risk from a possible "volcanic winter". Britain's Geological Society says that here is reason to be concerned about the possibility of a

A team of scientists announced yesterday that massive underwater eruptions of gas are the likely causes of mysterious rifts in the ocean floor off Virginia, bolstering the researchers' theory that

Geologists said on Thursday they witnessed the explosive birth of a new island in the Pacific Ocean as an under-sea volcano erupted before their

A committee monitoring volcanic activity at Mt. Usu in southwestern Hokkaido (Japan) announced Monday that in light of the fact that volcanic activity in the mountain has been gradually subsiding,

Experts at a workshop rated Dhaka as one of the 20 major earthquake-prone cities in the world and warned that there would be a complete catastrophe if a severe earthquake should hit it. Jointly

The Earth's oceans are going to dry up and disappear in approximately a billion years. Anyway by then there would be no human beings to mourn the loss as much of the carbon dioxide would have been