Significant damage is likely and some fatalities are possible, officials said.

A strong earthquake in the South Island that sparked a tsunami warning felt like a truck driving past, a Wānaka couple say.

Ground sensors can help predict the collapse of cliffs along San Diego’s coast according to research conducted over four years by Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientists. In a study published ...

Following Thursday’s M5.9 earthquake in the South Island, NEMA director of Civil Defence Emergency Management John Price said there was a 75% chance the Alpine Fault would “go off in the next 50 years ...

K Allstadt, JE Vidale, AD Frankel, A scenario study of seismically induced landsliding in seattle using broadband synthetic seismograms. Bull Seismol Soc Am 103, 2971–2992 (2013). RM Iverson, et al., ...