A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake has rattled southern Texas in the vicinity of San Antonio, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

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

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the ...

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

One of the world's most anticipated earthquakes is the next major surface rupture of the Alpine Fault ... extent and intensity of ground shaking and impacts on the landscape, infrastructure ...

The earthquake’s rupture behavior was unique ... bounces multiple times, creating impacts (ground shaking) far from its ...

Mokhtar Adda-Bedia from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, have unveiled groundbreaking insights into the mechanisms driving frictional rupture and earthquake nucleation. Their study bridges ...

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 ...

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.

A strong earthquake measuring a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 has rattled southwestern Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency said Monday that tsunami advisories were issued for Miyazaki Prefecture, ...