At 10:47 AM on February 3, 1931, the earth shook violently beneath Napier, New Zealand. Two and a half minutes later, most of the town lay in ruins, consumed first by earthquake and then by fire.

On Jan. 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates. The ...

The primary cause of death in an earthquake is not the shaking ground but crumbling roofs, crashing walls and collapsing buildings. No deaths have been reported from the most recent 7.7 magnitude ...

Scientists used supercomputer simulation to reveal the underlying mechanism by which the irregular fault geometry, characterized by multisegments, controlled the variation of the fault slip and ...