A rare slow-motion earthquake discovered off Japan’s coast sheds light on tectonic behavior and may improve tsunami forecasting in vulnerable coastal regions. The post Slow-Motion Earthquake Unzips ...

Residents wore masks to protect themselves from thick volcanic ash that blanketed roads and green rice fields in villages in ...

The probability of occurrence and return periods for earthquakes of various magnitudes in each terrane indicate that the regions related to the Najd strike-slip fault system are probably the regions ...

Indonesia’s rumbling Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted twice on Monday, sending a column of volcanic materials up to 18 kilometers (11 miles) into the sky, dumping ...

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

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

According to the NCS, the earthquake occurred at a shallow depth of 15 km, making it susceptible to aftershocks ...

Geoscientists have published a large review paper in the journal Science that highlights the capacity of current models to ...

A third earthquake within 24 hours jolted Pakistan on Sunday, a statement by the National Center for Seismology (NCS) said. The earthquake of magnitude 3.8 on the Richter Scale occurred at a shallow ...

In earthquake country, the meandering paths of quake faults easily get seared into memory in the same way as a California freeway map. An earthquake fault is a fracture in the ground between two ...

Strong earthquake strikes Taiwan near east coast city of Hualien, agencies say Hualien, located 154 kilometers (95.6 miles) south of the capital Taipei, is relatively thinly populated compared to the ...