Incredibly, the new maps don’t just highlight areas prone to earthquakes—they also reveal the types of earthquakes these places can expect. The new seismic stress map of North America.

Since we were young, we've learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make up the seven continents, but a study published in the journal Gondwana ...

The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North America's "broken heart," it is filled with solidified magma and lava.

A geologist has mapped the formation of North America across hundreds of millions of years, showing the continent as two relatively tiny land masses 450 million years ago to what it looks like ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below.

How many continents are there? The seven continents are Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and South America — but some experts argue that there could be less.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

A collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters about some of North America's most significant places and landmarks.

Scientifically speaking, this would mean North America and Europe could be classed as one, and not two continents.

For the first time, scientists have produced a comprehensive map of the tectonic stresses acting on the North American continent.

Trek across this interactive map, collecting geological clues that tell the story of our continent.