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

Imagine waking up one morning and finding the ocean rushing toward your neighborhood. According to scientists, that ...

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, ...

Geologists have uncovered the remains of a massive tectonic plate beneath the Pacific Ocean, a plate that had been hidden for over 160 million years. Known as Pontus, this tectonic giant once covered ...

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground shaking, complicating timely evacuation efforts. Understanding their ...

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

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

Scientists have uncovered a rare slow-motion earthquake in Japan’s most tsunami-prone fault zone.

Vertical evacuation towers? Reinforced rooftop refuges? Relocation to higher, safer ground? Those are just a few of the options on the table that were presented at a pair of community forums that the ...

A study reveals that the oldest continental crust on Earth is slowly being broken up by shifting tectonic forces.

A new study does the difficult task of trying to piece together the history of the world’s largest subduction zone.