An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists ...

Earthquakes are generally understood to rupture outward from their starting point beneath the ground, sending seismic waves ...

New research from MIT reveals that earthquakes can reverse direction, striking the same area twice, a phenomenon now termed ...

Like the rest of the Northeast, Maine has no active faults, making it an area of relatively low seismic activity. But it ...

The West Coast of North America is a geologically tumultuous zone where tectonic plates collide, subducting under and scraping past one another. Over the eons, this activity has regularly caused major ...

In 2025, Myanmar experienced a fault break that stretched 311 miles in seconds, forcing geologists to rethink key seismic ...

Shrinking lakes across the Tibetan Plateau may be doing more than altering the region’s hydrology. New research suggests that the slow disappearance of massive water bodies over tens of thousands of ...

Scientists find seismic scars in Brzegi, Poland and warn that the actual risk from an unknown fault line is much greater than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A smoky sunset as seen from the San Andreas fault on Pallet Creek Road in Juniper Hills on Sept. 20, 2020. (Myung J. Chun / Los ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

A 2.9-magnitude earthquake shook the tri-county on Feb. 7, followed by other small quakes across South Carolina in recent ...