For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

Local emergency agencies say they are monitoring the seismic activity but have not issued any tsunami warnings.

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by ...

In the early hours of the morning, residents across the Northern Territory's Top End were jolted awake by the tremors of a magnitude-6.4 earthquake originating from the Banda Sea. This seismic event, ...

Geologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have quantified the complete energy budget of an earthquake for the first time. Particularly, the team looked at how much energy is ...

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 ...

In the same way that the number of rings in a tree can tell us its age, the characteristics of rocks such as breccia can tell us about the history of a region. The breccia around Ichinokawa Mine ...

A magnitude 2.7 earthquake rattled parts of central Oklahoma late Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Advanced seismic imaging techniques could improve earthquake early warning models and aid the development of next-generation ...

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 ...

Russell Wilson’s touchdown pass to Jermaine Kearse got the needled jumping Sunday on the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network instruments embedded at CenturyLink Field. PNSN tweeted: TOUCHDOWN @Seahawks!