For more than three decades, experts have been trying to solve the mystery of why a certain kind of underwater fault triggers ...

Deep beneath the Pacific, one undersea fault has produced nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every few years for ...

The 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake struck southern Turkey and Syria along the East Anatolian Fault. The magnitude 7.8 quake and its magnitude 7.5 aftershock devastated the region, killing tens of ...

Tsukuba, Japan—In July 2025, a massive earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8-8.9 struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. Notably, this event ruptured nearly the same region as the M9.0-class ...

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) has presented UC Santa Cruz postdoctoral scholar Will Steinhardt with its 2024 Jason P. Morgan Early Career Award honoring outstanding and significant ...

Earthquakes can visibly and permanently crack the ground apart in dramatic and unpredictable surface fault rupture, but new ...

The Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt has survived more than 4,500 years. Earthquakes have repeatedly shaken the region, ...

Earthquakes can cause serious damage to buildings, but this new invention has the potential to mitigate some of that damage without needing electricity.

Illustration of how DAS works for earthquake monitoring. An example of DAS data collected in Ridgecrest City, CA is shown on the right. Seismology is undergoing significant change with the rise of ...

Earthquake-resistant technology may soon become simpler, cheaper and far more reliable thanks to a newly patented steel ...

ELGIN, S.C. (WIS) - There were more tremors in the Midlands overnight in the midst of an ongoing earthquake swarm. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, a 2.3 magnitude earthquake hit near Elgin at ...

But scientists still haven't quite figured out the physics of how they move. One of the world's most sophisticated scientific facilities is turning to ultra-low temperatures to try and unravel hidden ...