Beneath Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier, hundreds of undetected earthquakes have rumbled for over a decade, signaling the ...

At the edge of Antarctica, one of the planet’s most fragile ice giants is splintering so violently that it is sending out its ...

As temperatures across the Midwest tumbled below zero overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, many reported being awakened by the sound of loud booms, cracks and pops. Some even reported feeling tremors.

Geologist Peter Malin and his former graduate student, Allen Hunt, suggest that the growing weight of the ice sheet would have triggered quakes by causing periodic crustal failure along what is now ...

A researcher lowers a fiber-optic cable 1,500 meters into the borehole in or-der to record signals from inside the ice stream continuously for 14 hours. Credit: ETH Zurich A researcher lowers a ...

A: Thursday night and Friday morning, several people reported hearing loud noises, thinking something fell on their house or gunshots were fired. These sounds result from what are called frost quakes ...

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Have you ever heard of a "frost quake"? They aren't super common this far south, but they do happen. There have been reports of frost quakes as far south as Tennessee, but they're more common in ...