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Slow-moving slides are common around the world, and especially in California, where several hundred have been mapped in ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global ...

Global directory app, Google Maps is celebrating 20 years in existence. Google disclosed this in a statement made available to Technext. Google Maps is a tool that has fundamentally changed how people ...

Latest maps from WXCHARTS show that at midnight on February 14, snow will hit most of Wales, Manchester, Cumbria and the Lake District, as well as parts of Scotland. By 6am, snowfall will stretch ...

At the center of this conversation is the concept that these tectonic plates could still be pulling apart in unexpected ways. Some experts say this updated view could affect how we classify continents ...

Only one feature would make me dump Waze and switch to Google Maps full-time: a setting to let me choose the traffic reports to import from Waze into Google Maps. Let me explain why it's doable ...

Earthquakes are less common on the East Coast because the area does not lie on a boundary of tectonic plates — slabs of Earth's crust that slide past each other and build pressure when they get ...

Dr. John Ebel, a geophysics professor at Boston College, explained the movement of tectonic plates, including the North American Plate, which Maine is centered on, is responsible for the seismic event ...

Google Maps will change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in line with Trump's wishes. Newly-inaugurated President Trump ordered the name change as part of a lengthy list of ...

Google Maps has indicated it would follow suit. However, the federal process isn't as simple as crossing out the old name and writing in a new one. It's a complicated switch across the bureaucracy ...

Google plans to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America and that of the Alaskan mountain Denali to Mount McKinley in Google Maps, the company said Tuesday in a series of tweets.