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

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

The shaking produced by an earthquake can crack the ground, bring down buildings and cause massive rockfalls. All this destructive power is, astoundingly, just a fraction of a quake’s overall energy.

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

A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake shook northern Afghanistan before dawn Monday, killing at least 20 people and injuring ...

SAN BENITO COUNTY, CA - on Friday around midday, a preliminary 2.9 magnitude quake was detected close to New Idria, according ...

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, ...

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 ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen ...

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 ...

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 ...

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!