Earthquakes are among nature’s most unpredictable and devastating events. While humans have developed complex systems to detect and predict these natural disasters, animals seem to have an uncanny ...

Following the major 8.8M earthquake off the coast of Russia, tsunami alerts were issued for Hawaii, Alaska and the Continental U.S. West Coast Wednesday. Evacuations were ordered as well. And that's ...

A period of slow, creeping movement without any shaking may be a necessary prelude to earthquakes, a new study suggests. The research, which was on the fundamentals of how materials rupture, focused ...