Many Americans think that foreign aid is a large chunk of the federal budget. Surveys often reveal that the public thinks ...

Louisiana is the most likely place to find flood insurance, with 21% of its housing covered, followed by Florida, with 18%, Hawaii, with 11%, South Carolina, with 8%, and Delaware, with 6%.

Earthquakes occur along fault lines between continental plates, where one plate is diving beneath another. Pressure builds between each plate, called fault stress. When this stress builds enough to ...

Southern California experienced 15 seismic sequences with at least one magnitude 4 or higher earthquake — the highest total ...

Washington hasn’t seen a major earthquake since the 6.8 magnitude Nisqually earthquake in 2001. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, ...

Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City basin.

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along fault lines between ...

A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, ...

Jakarta is one of the largest cities in the world and one of the most earthquake-prone. It is located within the Pacific Ring ...

It is located within the Eastern Tennessee Seismic Zone, which experiences frequent, small earthquakes. Dr. Zhigang Peng is a Professor of Geophysics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

A 20-year-old tree at Jheel Park gets uprooted following the earthquake. (ANI) A preliminary analysis by National Center for Seismology (NCS) said at fault was a weak zone in the earth’s crust ...

Zone IV signifies a higher likelihood of experiencing earthquakes with moderate to high levels of intensity. This categorisation is mainly due to Delhi’s geographical position and geological ...