Two major fault lines on the West Coast are in ‘sync’ and signal possible massive quake on horizon, scientists warn - The impact would be doubly as devastating as predictions for the impending ‘Big On ...

A future mega-earthquake in the Pacific Northwest could lead to the “Big One” along the San Andreas fault in California—or vice versa.

Just a few seconds before 10 in the evening on Tuesday, September 30, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck near Daanbantayan on ...

In an article published in Science Advances, a collaborative team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) presents a never-before-seen image of an oceanic transform fault from ...

In earthquake studies, the “finders keepers” idiom does not hold. Instead, scientists as “fault finders” must also be “knowledge sharers,” who unconditionally share their data and findings to the ...

THE powerful earthquake that shook Cebu in late September left not only cracked buildings and frayed nerves but also a lingering question: Could this be the sta ...

A new study suggests using fiber optic cables on the ocean floor could track underwater fault ruptures and improve earthquake ...

Sensors and observation instruments being lowered into a borehole off the coast of Japan nearly 1,500 feet below the seafloor during an International Ocean Discovery Program mission in 2016. Sensors ...

When a seismologist visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange. Pebble- to boulder-sized rocks clearly had been moved by the earthquakes ...

That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever an earthquake strikes, many may wonder what caused the earthquake and ...

The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) on Wednesday said the fault that caused the on Tuesday that left 63 people dead had not moved for the past 400 years.

The shocking discovery of hematite on the Moon was made a few years ago. Hematite forms from the oxidation of iron, a process ...