Crust of the matter

'We must be ready to face big earthquakes in prone areas'

The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) conducted mega mock drills in prone areas to assess our preparedness in the event of large …

Deep dwellers

Life-forms have been found even inside the Earth's crust, a region previously thought to be barren

Earth's spinning innards

A recent finding about the earth's core could hold a clue to the forces that shape the planet

Steaming stones

A quaky future

Creepy forebodings

Pole track

Hot spot motion

Deadly impact

A series of comet collisions with the Earth may have led to the extinction of many species

Of ups and downs

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

The slower, the safer

Geologists in the US have discovered that earthquakes can also occur slowly causing minimal damage

Hitting rock-bottom

Certain rocks, discovered literally in the pits of the earth, could substantially change the prevailing tectonic theory

To quake or not to quake

Earthquakes occurring below oceans have been the subject of intense speculation of seismologists across the globe. Theories of the past have …

Earthy ups and downs

New images of the earth's interior show that slabs of surface rock sink to the bottom of the core

Early birds

Rocks -- 3.85 billion year old --show that battered by meteors and supposedly sterile, ancient Earth still harboured life-forms

Faking history

Most fossils, repositories of early life on Earth, may not be fossils at all. Existing evolutionary theories stand to lose ground

Icy quakes

A continental jigsaw

A new study sheds more light on how Argentina came into its present form

Spinning faster

Quake quest

Flowing study

The truth about an ocean

An end to forecasting

Japan's earthquake-prediction programme may soon be closed down

Breaking a myth