Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Great Falls on Thursday, rattling residents across central Montana but causing minimal damage, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

Since Nov. 9, there have been 91 earthquakes of magnitude 2.0 and above — the largest being a 4.0 on Dec. 19 — in the East ...

The earthquake that killed tens of thousands of people and led to the Fukushima nuclear shutdown was amplified by a soft layer of slippery clay, according to a new study. The layer is only around ...

Gandhinagar: A three-day global conference on earthquake science, aimed at strengthening early warning systems and advancing ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San ...

It was a groundbreaking discovery. Scientists have found previously concealed fault lines along California’s north coast, sparking concerns that we could be drastically underestimating the earthquake ...

Did you know that nature contains clues that can uncover ancient earthquakes that occurred decades, or even centuries ago?