A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.

California's seismic risk is increasing with supershear earthquakes, which are faster and more destructive than typical ...

Why do some earthquakes release more energy than others? A research team led by Prof. Dr. Armin Dielforder from the University of Greifswald has managed to demonstrate a clear physical connection ...

The March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake is giving scientists a rare look into how some of the world's most dangerous fault ...

Earthquakes can be deadly and disastrous. But what we feel may constitute a tiny sliver of an earthquake’s destructive energy, according to a new experiment. In a recent AGU Advances paper, ...

The devastating quake produced around 32 petajoules, Januka Attanayake told The New York Times. That's roughly the equivalent of the energy from nearly 8 million tons of TNT. The earthquake that has ...

The McLaskey Research Group, led by Prof. Gregory McLaskey, civil and environmental engineering, has made a breakthrough in the study of earthquakes by experimentally showing that the fracture energy ...

When a powerful earthquake shook the far eastern edge of Russia in late July, it set off more than a huge movement of the ...

Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, triggering unexpected quakes in tectonically stable regions.

A scanning electron photomicrograph highlights a region of rock that slipped during a laboratory-induced earthquake. The "flowy" central area represents a portion of the rock that was melted and ...

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