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 ...

Meteorologist Kristen Currie explains different types of earthquakes after one of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia. Read more ...

The Hidden Architecture of Earth's Interior Earth's structure resembles a giant onion with distinct layers, each playing a ...

Guerrero, Mexico is an active site with several recent major earthquakes, but also a small area called the ‘Guerrero seismic gap’ (pictured) where no earthquakes have occurred for more than a century.

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth’s surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum — ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck of the northeast coast of Japan late Monday. Thereafter, a tsunami of 50 cm was ...

One year ago, on April 5, 2024, a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck near Tewksbury, rattling homes and nerves across New Jersey and beyond. The strongest quake to hit the state in more than a century, ...

Kobe University geophysicist SUENAGA Nobuaki performs three-dimensional computer simulations to understand the relationship between different types of earthquakes, the temperature at the interface ...

Spencer Watkins and John Oswald, engineering geologists with California Geological Survey, look over earthquake damage outside Scotia, California. Last week, about 60 miles off the coast near Ferndale ...

Illustration of the Cascadia subduction zone, a region where the patterns examined in this study play out. (Credit: Carie Frantz, Wikimedia Commons) When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, ...