New evidence confirms pre-continental sediments in Kutch and Cambay

The detailed study of pre-continental sediments will help in better understanding of tectonics, earthquakes, evolution and the drifting process …

Why India drifted fast from Gondwanaland?

Not just Andaman, frequency of earthquakes is increasing in northeast too

The surge in frequency of tremors hitting northeast India can be attributed to giant earthquakes that preceded them

Why the recent surge in earthquakes?

The recent surge in earthquakes and the explanation for the formation of the world's largest exposed fault have provided momentum to …

6.6 magnitude quake strikes Afghanistan

Temblor a 'deep' one in seismic parlance; tremors felt in Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand and Delhi

The bacteria behind the iron curtain

Microbiologists say a species of bacteria was responsible for iron deposits in the sedimentary layers that run hundreds of kilometres deep in the …

Breaking the ice on Antarctica

Ice caps may grow in higher temperatures

Research shows that a warmer earth may not melt polar ice and cause sea levels to rise, as has been feared so far.

The fraud of the century

Greening beams

GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: PERSPECTIVES OF REMOTE SENSING AND GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM Edited by R B Singh Oxford & IBH Publishing …

In Focus

Interior boundaries

Cracking of a fragment of the earth's crust in Canada provides a snapshot of an amazing geological event

Hammer of God

The collision of a meteorite with the Earth produced energy about a million times more than the largest earthquake ever recorded

Turmoil in the Earth's guts

The foundations of the Yellowstone National Park are still on the boil

INDIA

Nature's fury

A lubricated fault?

Understanding earthquakes

The great Himalayan flood

Geological evidence points to a historic inundation

Flowed east, flowing west

Changing course of Himalayan rivers passing through Punjab

Himalayas on the move

The Indian plate is heavy and steadily sinking under Eurasia  

The world’s five deadliest volcanoes … and why they’re so dangerous

Since 1600, 278,880 people have been killed by volcanic activity, with many of these deaths attributed to secondary hazards associated with the …

Have human-made changes heralded a new epoch?

Experts have proposed that the new epoch—Anthropocene—began around 1950, when human-induced changes started affecting earth's geology

‘Many seismic gaps in Himalayas capable of producing powerful earthquakes’

In an interview to Kundan Pandey, Supriyo Mitra, associate professor with the Department of Earth Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science …

Can we predict the recurrence of earthquakes?

Three back to back earthquakes in Asia show how vulnerable we are