The March 28, 2025, Myanmar earthquake is giving scientists a rare look into how some of the world's most dangerous fault ...
Tectonic plates are, like most of us, under a lot of stress and are always in motion. But they move slowly, and the exact moment when the stress between them will be released is uncertain. While ...
The sudden burst of earthquakes around Santorini rattled one of the world’s most famous volcanic islands and raised an old fear: was the caldera waking up again. Scientists have now pieced together a ...
As the name suggests, an earthquake is an event that causes the earth to shake. In some cases, an earthquake can be so significant that it cracks open the ground, as well as human-made structures such ...
When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, officials warned that damaging tsunami waves could follow. Instead, the waves that reached Hawaii and the U.S. West ...
Earthquakes are a common occurrence in Hawaii. If you subscribe to emergency, earthquake or volcano notifications, the shaking you feel might be followed by a message summarizing the earthquake. Have ...
NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – The Oklahoma Geological Survey said there was a good explanation for why the metro continues to feel earthquakes. Jake Walter, state seismologist, said they were aftershocks ...
A 3.8 magnitude earthquake off York Harbor, Maine, shook Seacoast New Hampshire, southern Maine and much of New England Monday. It caught the entire region by surprise, public safety dispatch centers ...
Geologists show how the earthquake's rupture direction may have affected who felt the strongest shaking on 5 April. The magnitude 4.8 Tewksbury earthquake surprised millions of people on the U.S. East ...
A recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters is the first to directly link earthquakes to climate ...