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." ...

Some earthquakes are imperceptibly quiet. We may not feel them, but machines might detect them—and they can point scientists to a potential "Big One".

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

That is spurring efforts around the world to develop a new generation of earthquake monitoring and climate forecasting ...

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 ...