One of the “worst-case scenarios” with an epicenter in southeast Missouri, near Sikeston, would be the least disastrous of ...

An earthquake of magnitude 6.1 on Richter Scale jolted Panama late on Friday, a statement from the National Center for ...

Researchers have long thought that this force is the central driver of earthquakes. But another force is also in the mix: the properties of the rocks in the fault zones along the plate interface.

A study looking at a small region in Japan has shown that the properties of fault zone rocks really matter for the generation of earthquakes. Earthquakes occur along fault lines between ...

A 4.9-magnitude earthquake hit Afghanistan, 160 km below the surface, with a 4.0-magnitude quake occurring days earlier at a ...

Southern California experienced 15 seismic sequences with at least one magnitude 4 or higher earthquake — the highest total ...

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

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) said it will unveil today an active fault atlas featuring ...

DOST-Phivolcs launches the Central Digos Fault Atlas to aid in earthquake preparedness, providing detailed maps and hazard ...

A 3.9 magnitude earthquake struck the Malibu area on Sunday night, affecting thousands of residents. The earthquake hit at 8.17 p.m. PT, around eight miles from Westlake Village and nine miles from ...

and serve as a reminder of just how many Californians live in a danger zone. The summer’s Eastside L.A earthquakes, for instance, were centered on faults associated with the Puente Hills thrust ...