A new study shows that climate shapes the land and can change where earthquakes happen and when volcanoes erupt.

created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth’s rotation. Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and Dr. Richard Gross of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

A quiet Friday afternoon in central Myanmar was shattered on March 28, 2025, when a massive magnitude 7.7 earthquake tore through the region. The rupture followed the notorious Sagaing Fault, a strike ...

Computer models that factor in the Sun's impact on Earth's surface temperatures are providing more accurate simulations of past earthquakes. Reading time 2 minutes Seismologists know a lot about the ...

Seismic energy released during a New Year's Day earthquake in Japan traveled across the surface and through the earth, registering on seismographs in North Carolina. WRAL's Dan Haggerty spoke with ...

On Wednesday morning, a minor earthquake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale struck Northern California, shaking the region and reminding residents of the ever-present seismic activity. This article ...

Ethiopia’s Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The ...

On the night of November 27, 2025, a magnitude 3.4 earthquake rattled the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen in British Columbia, Canada, at 11:19 PM local time. This tremor, which occurred at ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth’s surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum—called ...

Jesse Kearse receives funding from Royal Society Te Apārangi Marsden Fund. During the devastating magnitude 7.7 Myanmar earthquake on March 28 this year, a CCTV camera captured the moment the plate ...

Earth-observing satellites reveal significant ground shift in central Myanmar following the devastating earthquakes that ravaged the area in March. Earth-observing satellites reveal significant ground ...