A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical ...

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake hit Northern California Monday evening near Los Banos, about 30 miles from San Jose. No damage ...

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...

This little-known earthquake fault has been quiet. But it can unleash devastation across SoCal. ... The longer the rupture goes in an earthquake, the more total seismic energy is produced.

Experts say Karachi is surrounded by several active and dormant fault lines, can’t withstand even a moderate intensity tremor ...

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal on Monday at a shallow depth of 14km, according to the National Center for Seismology ...

In other areas, including the western U.S., the earthquake energy may wane more quickly, because more frequent seismic activity leads to a lot of broken-up rock that can absorb that energy.

Two successive quakes jolted Andaman Sea on Monday. The latest earthquake measuring 4.7 magnitude on the Richter scale jolted ...

According to the National Center for Seismology (NCS), the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 14km, making it ...

Afghanistan sits on numerous fault lines between the Indian and the Eurasian tectonic plates, and a fault line running ...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.2 struck Nepal and it occurred at a shallow depth of 10 kilometers. The country is highly ...