Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

Earthquake swarms are clusters of small quakes caused by complex fault systems and underground stress, and scientists say ...

Multiple notable earthquakes have struck the United States this year, including a powerful quake in California and a historic event on the East Coast earlier in 2024. Strong earthquakes can lead to ...

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 ...

When a huge earthquake struck near Kamchatka, the SWOT satellite captured an unprecedented, high-resolution view of the resulting tsunami as it crossed the Pacific. The data revealed the waves were ...

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

"Over that vast time, the rough edges and bends in the fault have been ground down," first author Eric Lindsey, a ...

The film discusses the science of earthquakes, focusing on a significant earthquake recorded in Berkeley, California, that originated in Eastern Turkey. It explains how seismographs detect seismic ...

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 Alaska Earthquake Center is in negotiations with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to restore funding ...