If you live on Vancouver Island, you know that earthquakes are a given due to our location near the Cascadia Subduction Zone: ...
An 3.7 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Borrego Springs Thursday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ...
One of the “worst-case scenarios” with an epicenter in southeast Missouri, near Sikeston, would be the least disastrous of ...
People reported feeling the earthquake as far as south Pierce County, north of Seattle and around Port Orchard.
Extreme engineering in earthquake zones and volatile climates represents the pinnacle of structural innovation, where buildings must withstand both seismic forces and extreme weather conditions. These ...
Five days later, on February 23, an earthquake hit Himachal's Mandi district. India is divided into different seismic zones based on the frequency and potential damage caused by earthquakes. These ...
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 ...
“It’s easy to forget that we live in earthquake zones in Vancouver. We don’t feel them very often. This is the biggest earthquake we’ve felt in decades,” she said. How people felt the ...
Fortunately, no casualties or structural damages have been reported so far. Odisha is classified under seismic zones II and III, indicating a moderate level of seismic activity. Although the state ...