Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

Far beneath the ocean's surface, where mountain belts rise and ancient oceanic crust lies hidden, a long-lost tectonic plate ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course ...

Will Japans Baba Vangas earthquake and tsunami prediction come true? Scientists have detected small tremors that are ...

Disasters often strike without warning, and some of the greatest threats to humanity are the ones we rarely think about until ...

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground shaking ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

Meteorology Department says recent Nicobar quakes pose no risk to Thailand. Small quakes won't trigger tsunami. One-hour ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for ...

Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...