A Chinese spacecraft that burned up high over Los Angeles created a sonic trail detected by ground-based sensors.

The quake epicenter was 2 miles north-northwest of Cobb, a small community in the hills south of Clear Lake. The epicenter ...

With five active volcanoes in Washington state, the threat of a repeat eruption looms large in many minds. Scientists at the ...

There’s the seismometer, that “fancy microphone in the Earth”, as Jackson describes it, listening for the vibrations of quakes. And then there are more exotic instruments. Jackson was among early ...

called seismometers, spread across the world. Those instruments record the waves of shaking from the quake’s point of origin moving through the earth. Worldwide, the frequency of earthquakes has ...

A stretch of seismic activity felt in and around the Commonwealth during November and December drew some extra interest from ...

Researchers say rapidly spreading fault ruptures may have amplified the intensity of the earthquake that jolted Japan's Noto ...

WELLINGTON, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- New Zealand scientists called for increased seismometer coverage to prepare for the next big earthquake, according to a study released on Wednesday. Monitoring of ...

The tsunami was the deadliest natural disaster in the 21st century and one of the deadliest in recorded history. Head of ...