Earthquakes happen when the Earth’s crust suddenly shifts. The crust is broken into large pieces called tectonic plates, ...

Earthquakes typically occur along edges of tectonic plates. But their impacts may be felt in a broader region. (AP video produced by Javier Arciga) ...

While earthquakes are not uncommon in the Bay Area, one city has been experiencing a swarm of quakes since November. San Ramon sits atop the Calaveras Fault, and for some reason that scientists don't ...

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Japan is learning what life is life under a megaquake watch. NPR's Rob Schmitz talks to Richard Allen, director of the Berkeley Seismology Lab, about what it means.

But Saturday’s dystopian scenes of robot cars parked in thoroughfares with hazard lights flashing and angry motorists honking ...

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 ...

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As Nepal faces deep governance failure, Sujeev Shakya explains how political cartels hollowed out the state, why monarchy is being revived as a Hindu nationalist symbol, and how society survives ...

Earthquakes may be unpredictable, but their impacts are not entirely mysterious. New modeling techniques are offering a clearer view beneath the surface.

Aftershocks have been recorded for both earthquakes. On Dec. 8, Japanese authorities warned an even more powerful earthquake ...

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