As seismic waves travel through Earth, they gradually lose energy, a process called attenuation. That energy loss doesn't ...

An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight ...

There’s nothing that’s happened over the past four or five years on this," a city project manager said of the site near San Diego City College.

Now experts are warning “The Big One” could be even worse than feared due to a horrific domino effect that could wipe out the ...

Experts are issuing renewed and urgent alerts regarding the Cascadia Subduction Zone — a 700-mile fault line located off the ...

Pinning down why faults creep matters for how scientists build models of the world’s most powerful earthquake zones to assess long-term earthquake and tsunami hazards, from Alas ...

Nara and Osaka in Japan have been rocked by a huge 5.7 earthquake as buildings shake in the major cities. MORE UPDATES TO ...

Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic crust into the mantle ...

A groundbreaking study in Science Advances reveals that Earth's tectonic plates are breaking apart under the Cascadia ...

The magnitude of an earthquake depends on how far a rupture travels along a fault line before it stops. For the first time, we have now directly observed how a large earthquake comes to a halt. By ...

Recent seismic imaging off Vancouver Island has revealed something extraordinary: a tear in the subducting oceanic plate beneath the Cascadia Subduction Zone. The finding briefly raised the public’s ...

Most people only think about earthquakes after one happens. The news cycle kicks in, the footage rolls, and for a few days everyone wonders how we can be better prepared. Then life moves on. But for ...