Tremors beneath Northern California show hidden plate movement, helping scientists better understand where future big ...

A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists can do is map the hidden layers beneath the surface that control how ...

Tokyo, Japan - Megathrust earthquakes are large earthquakes that occur on faults found along the boundaries between tectonic plates. The Nankai Trough is a megathrust earthquake zone lying off the ...

Damaging earthquakes could strike nearly 75 percent of the U.S, new research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) found. Scientists using the USGS National Seismic Hazard Model,created a color-coded ...

When a 4.4-magnitude earthquake rattled Los Angeles on Aug.13, it didn’t come as a complete surprise to everybody. About a million Californians got an early alert on their phones that a quake was ...

The magnitude-7.5 earthquake and its aftershocks devastated parts of Ishikawa prefecture on the Sea of Japan coast - Copyright AFP Toshifumi KITAMURA The magnitude-7. ...

A groundbreaking discovery in earthquake science is shedding light on the hidden processes that trigger seismic events, ...

"Mr. Browning has a prediction/we've all been told." -- "New Madrid," Uncle Tupelo It was supposed to happen on or around Dec. 3, 1990: A massive earthquake along the New Madrid Seismic Zone would ...