New research shows that slow, silent stress buildup and fault geometry are crucial in triggering earthquakes A new study has ...

The aviation color code over the area has been changed from green to yellow as a precaution, the Icelandic meteorological ...

It’s virtually impossible to predict when and where an earthquake will occur. Depending on your location and how big the earthquake is, warning times range from a few seconds to a few minutes. But ...

A magnitude 5.8 earthquake struck off the central Philippines on Thursday, damaging buildings and a road near its epicentre, ...

By refining an artificial intelligence approach to predicting earthquakes in the laboratory, or labquakes, engineers at Penn ...

A small temblor startled residents near Richmond this week. Over a decade ago, a 5.8 earthquake in Virginia became the most ...

A series of earthquakes, the strongest measuring around 5.0 in magnitude, struck Sulaimani province’s Garmiyan early Sunday, ...

The town of New Madrid seems obsessed with the fault lines that loom under its surface. Signs with the slogan “It’s Our Fault” line the road into town, past the cotton fields and defunct factories ...

"The same physical process will take place in both cases — the explosive spring of the bent plates will release in the same ...

While it caught many residents by surprise, Martin Chapman, a geophysics professor at Virginia Tech, said quakes like these ...

There’s been a whole lot of shaking going on as a trio of earthquakes struck Monday in San Bernardino and Riverside counties.

Plates at subduction zones typically move just a few centimeters per year. But when accumulated stress at these convergent ...