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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

At 8:11 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, a magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook approximately 300,000 Anchorage residents from their ...

In the wake of the devastating earthquake that killed an estimated 11,000 people in Turkey and Syria, scientists from around the world will be flocking to the disaster zone to learn more about the ...

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.