A new 3D subsurface model shows how variations in rock strength beneath the Marmara Sea could trigger future large earthquakes along the North Anatolian Fault. The findings improve understanding of ...

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.

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, ...

A magnitude 4.9 earthquake shook parts of Southern California on Jan. 19, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake struck about 12 miles northeast of Indio at around 5:56 p.m. PT. It caused ...

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?