Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 magnitude 7.5 earthquake that devastated...
At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?
Using data compiled from single earthquakes across...
A 6.6-magnitude earthquake struck far off southwest Australia on Wednesday, but no tsunami warning was issued.
The epicenter was in the Indian Ocean 2,069 kilometers (1,283 miles)...
The 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake struck southern Turkey and Syria along the East Anatolian Fault. The magnitude 7.8 quake and its magnitude 7.5 aftershock devastated...
Earthquakes are among the deadliest of natural global threats to society, responsible for the majority of disaster-related deaths and financial losses in the past...
Newly published research has revealed that compositional rock anomalies within oceanic plates caused by ancient tectonics influence the trajectory and speed of the plates...
An earthquake shook Taiwan on Wednesday morning, setting off alarms in the capital, but no damage was immediately reported.
The Central Weather Administration measured the...
Scientists have pinpointed a giant rift under Earth that is developing between the Arabian-African and Eurasian plates. Led by geologist Renas Koshnaw of MIT...
As the road shook beneath him, Ko Zeyer sped past crumbled buildings, buckled roads and gaping sinkholes toward his hometown of Sagaing, the epicenter...
