A rare, ultra-long earthquake in Myanmar revealed that mature faults can deliver their full force directly to the surface.

On the morning of July 4, 2019, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck the Searles Valley in California’s Mojave Desert, with impacts felt across Southern California. About 34 hours later on July 5, the ...

One year on from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami and caused a partial meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, this month's special issue of Physics World, on ...

Common trends: researchers at the University of Tokyo have used data taken by telescopes such as the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico (pictured here in 2019) to uncover similarities between fast ...

Earthquakes' devastating impacts should be a reminder of nature's power. They change our planet in irreversible ways and should change our... Japan's terrible earthquake once again makes it painfully ...

The unexpectedly large earthquake that hit Sumatra last month is forcing scientists to rethink common assumptions about earthquake physics, researchers say. The magnitude 8.6 earthquake that struck in ...

On August 16, 2012, residents of the tiny Dutch village of Huizinge were rattled by an inexplicably large 3.6 magnitude earthquake. Gas extraction in the nearby Groningen gas field, one of the largest ...

Earthquake scientist Lucy Jones was tapped earlier this week to lead Los Angeles in its effort to make the city safer when it comes to earthquake issues. KCRW’s Avishay Artsy caught up with Jones to ...

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 ...

Seismologists used a powerful supercomputer that incorporated data-infused and physics-based models to identify the link between the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes. On the morning of July 4, 2019, a ...