With the ability to generate thousands of times the G-force of Earth and to handle as much as 1,900 tons of mass combined ...

Japan sits on one of the most active seismic zones on Earth, yet its cities are filled with towers designed to bend, absorb energy, and protect lives when the ground moves. This video breaks down the ...

With some luck, specialized equipment, a supervolcano and a narrow hole 30 stories deep, researchers demonstrated that ...

“Levi’s Stadium isn’t on any one of these major faults, but it’s in between them,” Sarah Minson, a research geophysicist with ...

A magnitude 2.9 quake struck near Charleston around 10:37 p.m. on Saturday, with more than 850 people reporting they felt it so far.

Kilauea has been erupting episodically within the summit caldera since Dec. 23, 2024. Its USGS Volcano Alert level is WATCH.

Researchers at Kyoto University have proposed a new physical model that explores how disturbances in the ionosphere may exert ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

Did you know that nature contains clues that can uncover ancient earthquakes that occurred decades, or even centuries ago?

A region in California has experienced an explosion of earthquakes. Experts warn that the area is poised for a major ...