Skateboarders take advantage of their neighbourhood’s new terrain in a distinctly Californian response to earthquake damage. Image credit: Jeremy Carroll/NBC You can learn about the human impact, ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission wants more information on how an earthquake fault and sinkhole geology in Lancaster County could affect the proposed 35-mile natural gas pipeline here. FERC is ...

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A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, prompting researchers to wonder how shaking from a moderate-sized earthquake ...

The Cascadia subduction zone is more complex than researchers previously knew. The new finding could help scientists better understand the risk from future earthquakes. When you purchase through links ...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants to know by next March how well the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station can withstand the shock of earthquakes. In 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission ...

Powerful earthquakes like the 6.2-magnitude temblor that rocked central Italy early this morning (Aug. 24) are surprisingly common in the region, geologists say. The shaking was caused by movement in ...

The deep earthquake was first detected by Herbert Hall Turner in 1922, and confirmed by Wadati in 1928, Scrase in 1931 and Stechschulte in 1932. Wadati demonstrated the inclined intermediatedeep ...

New research near Uluru in Australia's arid center shows that rock structures formed deep within the ancient Gondwana supercontinent controlled the rupture pathways of one of Australia's largest ...