One of Australia's closest neighbours proposes 29 locations for nuclear power plants across the archipelago, but critics say ...

He retired in 2023. Seismologists register the intensity of an earthquake in units known as moment magnitude, which measure how much energy was released when the rocks along a fault moved during ...

When the amount of energy an earthquake releases is plotted against the frequency with which those earthquakes occur, a distinctive relationship emerges (see the figures below). This is the ...

When the amount of energy an earthquake releases is plotted against the frequency with which those earthquakes occur, a distinctive relationship emerges (see the figures below). This is the ...

"The damage associated to such high-energy earthquakes is expectedly large, although this area has a record of low seismic ...

An earthquake is what happens when the seismic energy from plates slipping past each other rattles the planet's surface. Those seismic waves are like ripples on a pond, the USGS said. The ...

The weather service issued an update around 2:30 p.m. EST saying the tsunami threat had passed, less than an hour after the earthquake hit. The U.S. Geological Survey said the earthquake struck in ...

No damage was reported after an 4.1 magnitude earthquake rumbled through western Quebec on the morning of Dec. 29. According ...

A government-commissioned panel of experts on Wednesday largely supported Japan's new energy policy for the next few years ...