Researchers are deliberately setting off real (small) earthquakes to understand how to gauge the danger of a fault line ...

First quakes are the most dangerous: Once a healed fault ruptures for the first time, it cannot generate another major ...

A UCLA-led team of scientists has uncovered how the devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar in March 2025 ...

New research offers the theory that the San Andreas fault and the Cascadia subduction zone could produce devastating back-to-back earthquake disasters.

A magnitude 6.8 earthquake was recorded in the Beaus region on Monday morning, according to seismic data reviewed manually by ...

You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items ...

Once considered geologically impossible, earthquakes in stable regions like Utah and Groningen can actually occur due to long ...

One of the most dangerous faults in the United States, the Cascadia Subduction Zone, may be able to trigger an earthquake on the San Andreas Fault, a new study says. But some scientists want more ...

For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

A. 2.2-magnitude earthquake shook just north of Wayne County, in Lake Ontario, on Wednesday night. The earthquake hit around ...

At least 22 injured and several buildings turned into rubble after a strong earthquake shook Istanbul on Monday October 27, ...