New research shows that slow, silent stress buildup and fault geometry are crucial in triggering earthquakes A new study has ...

N​early 75% of the country is at risk for a potentially damaging earthquake, according to a recently updated USGS map.

Seismic upheaval in the Awash Fentale area has uprooted thousands from their homes. It has also raised questions about the ...

This causes a sudden rupture of the ice in the soil, generally in the coldest part of the night,” said Henry Berry, senior ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

There is much unstable ground in Japan ... message sent to millions of cell phones only seconds after the earthquake rupture began and updated several times in the following minutes.

Every hour, earthquakes take place somewhere on Earth as tectonic plates gradually move. This movement causes stress to build ...

Three people were hurt. The second earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or above since 1950. It formed a rupture in the ground that spanned 81 kilometres (50 miles). One of the strongest earthquakes ...

The Parker Butte earthquake, as it has been renamed, occurred about 7 kilometers deep along the Wabuska Lineament between ...

Frost quakes events occur when a rapid drop in air temperatures dramatically decreases the temperature of waterlogged soil, ...

Government panel reveals more than 80 per cent probability of massive earthquake along Nankai Trough, an 800km-long undersea ...