A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the hypocenter in ...

Similar quakes in the region in the future, a seismologist warned, "could maybe focus energy toward population centers." ...

For shallow earthquakes (earthquakes with a focus near the surface of the Earth), the surface waves may be the largest waves recorded by the seismograph. Often they are the only waves recorded a long ...

April 5's earthquake did more than rock the Northeast, it upheaved a few notions on how quakes impact this region.

The discovery of a new fault line may explain the unusually strong and displaced shaking from April’s magnitude 4.8 ...

The initial focus will be on areas with socially vulnerable populations, Maffei said. Soft-story apartments have been a killer in past earthquakes. During the predawn magnitude 6.7 Northridge ...

Turkey sits on one of the world's two most active fault lines, which means numerous devastating earthquakes have claimed thousands of lives and reshaped entire cities. Turkish history is still ...

On Nov. 6, at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center​ in Spain, the Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through ...

When an earthquake occurred on Sept. 24 in the waters near Torishima island, it set off a sense of urgency at the Japan ...

As part of a worldwide effort, the annual Great Oregon ShakeOut took place Thursday morning to encourage people to focus on earthquake preparedness. The ShakeOut occurs on the third Thursday of ...

The Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors has stopped short of letting the San Jose Earthquakes build a private soccer ...

Turkey sits on one of the world's two most active fault lines, which means numerous devastating earthquakes have claimed thousands of lives and reshaped entire cities. Turkish history is still marked ...