The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) introduced the design of its digital landslide disaster risk map of ...

IMI N'TALA, Morocco (AP) — The rescue crews and bystanders are long gone but the remnants of homes still sit in piles off to the side of the jagged roads. A year after nearly 3,000 people died ...

An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter scale struck the Paphos sea area overnight, according to announcements on Wednesday. Residents reported they felt tremors in low-lying Paphos communities ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit Jomalig, Quezon on Wednesday morning, PHIVOLCS said. The monitoring agency said the earthquake of tectonic origin, earlier reported at magnitude 5.6, struck the town at ...

There was no warning before the earthquake in Lisbon on Monday morning last week (Getty/iStock) There was no warning before the earthquake in Lisbon on Monday morning last week. Worse, the ...

There was no warning before the earthquake in Lisbon on Monday morning last week. Worse, the computer system of Portugal’s oceanic and atmospheric agency crashed shortly after the shaking began at ...

There was no warning before the earthquake in Lisbon on Monday morning last week. Worse, the computer system of Portugal’s oceanic and atmospheric agency crashed shortly after the shaking began ...

The mystery has now taken a significant step toward resolution, thanks to new research that links the formation of gold nuggets to the seismic forces generated by earthquakes. This discovery could ...

What if the stress from earthquakes could do something similar within the Earth? To test this hypothesis, researchers conducted an experiment designed to replicate the conditions quartz might ...

"Earthquake seismic wave frequencies vary wildly based on magnitude and rock composition, but range from 1 hertz to over 20 hertz," Voisey explained to ScienceAlert. "Each of these waves can distort ...

As we report today in Nature Geoscience, the answer likely has to do with the unusual electrical properties of quartz – and what happens when an earthquake puts it under pressure. Quartz is what ...