Breaking the ice on Antarctica

The fraud of the century

In Focus

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

Why India drifted fast from Gondwanaland?

Himalayas on the move

The Indian plate is heavy and steadily sinking under Eurasia  

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 …

Maluku earthquake: Why do some ocean earthquakes cause tsunamis while others don’t?

Shallow subduction zone earthquakes actually displace the seafloor and the ocean above it

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 …

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

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 …

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.

Greening beams

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

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

Char Dham: How geological instability and blasting are causing landslides in Tota Ghati

Any hard rock valleys yet to be widened for the project need to be critically evaluated

Can we predict the recurrence of earthquakes?

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

Sound track of the earth

Seismic noise can help map our planet’s interiors