Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have described a new method for studying faults that could improve earthquake forecasting, shedding light on when earthquakes will initiate and ...

Dec. 26, Boxing Day, marks the 20th year since one of the world’s most significant natural disasters, the Sumatra earthquake. The mega 9.1 magnitude earthquake in the eastern Indian Ocean ...

"Approximately 300 dead in an earthquake in Italy," the cartoon said. "It is still unknown whether it shouted Allahu Akbar (God is Great in Arabic)". The cartoon prompted widespread outrage.

There are a number of earthquake faults across Washington that historically have generated significant shaking about every 30 to 50 years. In the Puget Sound region, the most recent big earthquake ...

Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of earthquakes rattled along the New Madrid fault line, sparking fear of the “big one” shaking the area known for tremors. Centered in New Madrid, Missouri ...

Map of damage (rock fractures) around the Longmenshan fault zone, China. The red lines on this simplified geological map show the surface rupture of the 2008 magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake.

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 ...

A swarm of earthquakes rattled along the New Madrid fault line, sparking fear of the “big one” shaking the area known for tremors. Centered in New Madrid, Missouri, the seismic zone “is the ...

A new published study could shed new light on why some fault boundaries create earthquakes and others don’t. The secret could all be related to geometry. The study, released in Nature by Brown ...

And because of that, earthquakes occur frequently.” In recent years, the fault area has experienced a similarly sized earthquakes, said DeLong. A magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Ferndale in ...

Nevada is the nation’s third-most seismically active state and neighbors quake-prone California, which experienced two temblors in early July felt in Las Vegas. UNLV geoscientist Wanda Taylor explains ...