Imagine a scenario where the Pacific Northwest gets pummeled by a magnitude nine earthquake, only to have California's most ...

By tracking swarms of very small earthquakes, seismologists are getting a new picture of the complex region where the San Andreas fault meets the Cascadia subduction zone, an area that could give rise ...

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 ...

A new three-dimensional model of the fault beneath the Marmara Sea in Türkiye reveals where a future major earthquake could ...

The 2025 mega-quake in Myanmar was a catastrophe for the communities it struck, but for scientists it was also a once-in-a-generation natural experiment that unfolded almost perfectly on camera, in ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in ...

According to researchers from Science Tokyo, a new three-dimensional model of the fault beneath the Marmara Sea in Turkey ...

Deep beneath the surface, our planet is a reactor, and one of the ways you'll feel this activity is when there's an earthquake. Earthquakes are violent shaking from the planet's surface, according to ...

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

The earthquakes, while low in magnitude, spell a troubling fate for the glacier. The post Doomsday Glacier Bombarded by ...

Many of the state’s largest earthquakes have struck near the junction, where the Pacific, North American and Gorda plates ...