The new year started off with a bang, but not the kind Newfoundland and Labrador is used to. A 2.8-magnitude earthquake shook ...

Now, scientists aim to get their clearest picture yet of the complex mechanics of our big-risk Hikurangi Subduction Zone – ...

Scientists have a new method for studying faults that could improve earthquake forecasts, shedding light on where quakes start, how they spread, and where the biggest impacts might be. Scientists ...

Scientists have a new method for studying faults that could improve earthquake forecasts, shedding light on where quakes start, how they spread, and where the biggest impacts might be. A paper in ...

December 26, 2024, marks the 20th year since the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami. The tsunami generated by the quake ...

A swarm of earthquakes hit a massive 150-foot-long fault line in the Midwest that scientists fear is overdue for a mega-quake. This little-known New Madrid sits in America's Heartland, passing ...

The location of the earthquake suggested that it was generated on the east-dipping Sawtooth normal fault. The focal mechanism, however, suggested a complex, multi-fault rupture that was neither ...

Aftershocks are nature’s way of evening out the irregularity of fault slip. As I write, nearly 600 small earthquakes have been recorded along and near the Dec. 5th rupture zone. Most of these ...

ST. LOUIS – Earlier in the month, Missouri and nearby states saw a string of small earthquakes triggered along the New Madrid fault line. It raises the question many have had: Will the New ...