Researchers analyzed high-resolution seismic velocity data from 36 seismograph stations across the island of Kyushu to identify variations before, during, and after the MW 7.0 2016 Kumamoto earthquake ...

Disturbances in the Earth’s gravitational field caused by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake have been spotted in data recorded at the time by a network of seismometers spread throughout East Asia. The signal ...

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 -- ...

In southern California, the people of Ridgecrest have frayed nerves after back-to-back temblors and ongoing, sizable aftershocks. Officials have brought in counselors and therapy dogs. The Southern ...

Earthquakes: Nature's most unpredictable and one of her most devastating natural disasters. When high intensity earthquakes strike they can cause thousands of deaths and billions of dollars in damaged ...

Two recent earthquakes have devastated the home of a tiny fish, causing its population numbers to decline. However, a recent count of the pupfish population in a national park shows its numbers ...

It has been two years since a series of earthquakes badly damaged parts of central Italy, leaving parts uninhabitable, coming as a secondary punch in the wake of the deadly 6.2 quake that flattened ...

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, ...

CAPTAIN DUTTON'S valuable memoir on the Charleston earthquake of 1886 contains many accounts of the effects of this great earthquake on human beings. Nowhere could they be more vivid than in ...

The Southern California town of Ridgecrest is recovering after large back-to-back earthquakes late last week. The first on Thursday was a 6.4 magnitude quake. Then came a stronger 7.1 quake on Friday.