The low-intensity earthquake that hit the Thane Khargar belt on Sunday came as no surprise to scientsis. They say that since Mumbai is riddled with seismological faults, it is prone to earthquake.

The Karnataka government would come out with a comprehensive Karnataka Forest (Amendment) Bill based on the National Forest Policy evolved by the Centre after incorporating suggestions made by

California is sitting on gases at very high pressure that are enough to trigger earthquakes in near future

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Geologists have discovered huge deposits of gold, silver, copper and zinc in the Manus Basin, part of the Bismarck Sea to the northeast of Papua New Guinea. These minerals were found while they were

The Dehra Dun-based Survey of India will shortly launch a World Bank funded plan to geologically monitor the peninsular shield using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to predict earthquakes apart from

the Geological Survey of India (gsi) has identified new diamond and gold belts in the country with a potential for commercial extraction in the future. Among the newly discovered potential

The fact that Yellowstone is a geological hot spot - a place where deep forces push through the Earth's crust and violently alter the surface - has only recently become accepted by geologists. Most

A radar of the National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) has found long-lost ruins of temples in the jungles at Angkor, Cambodia. In the 12th century, nearly one million people were staying in

Shifts in the Earth s rotational axis caused changes in sea level