Non-volcanic tremor ramp up precedes slow slip in Cascadia by about a day, indicating that brittle-creeping process ...

is forced underneath the continental plate. The force of this collision is so great that mountains are created. Earthquakes are very common at this type of boundary as the mountains are pushed ...

Three earthquakes struck Indonesia on Tuesday, with a 5.5-magnitude tremor hitting North Sumatra province in the morning, and ...

For millions of years, Earth’s shifting plates have shaped continents, formed oceans, and built towering mountain ranges. But ...

Long back, a large collection of material masses coalesced and formed the Earth – it was a single crust or plate with no ...

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...

On a dynamic planet like Earth, it can be easy for drivers of change to go unnoticed – but scientists have now established and investigated an unexpected link between the Sun and our homeworld.

While the last slew of quakes is not a signal of danger, Nissen said it's important to use them as a "welcome reminder that ...

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6 on the Richter ... The whole of Solomon Islands, including Santa Cruz, is located on the plate boundary between the Indo-Australian plate and the Pacific plate.