In some parts of Earth's interior, seismic waves travel at different speeds depending on the direction in which they are ...

Scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) have analyzed signals generated by the vibrations of traffic along ...

A new laboratory earthquake model connects real contact area with earthquake dynamics, paving the way for improved prediction and early warning systems. Scientists have created a new laboratory model ...

Lasting only a minute, it shook Pioneer Square with vigor and rattled office and convention centers from Seattle to Olympia ...

The quake’s epicenter lies in the remote waters between South America and Antarctica, where seismic activity is rare.

On January 1, 2008, at 1:59 am in Calipatria, California, an earthquake happened. You haven’t heard of this earthquake; even if you had been living in Calipatria, you wouldn’t have felt anything. It ...

Scientists were able to use the data from a fiber optic cable and a sensitive measuring device to “image” the Mendocino ...

BERKELEY, Calif. - A magnitude 3.0 earthquake in the East Bay was recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey at 6:21 p.m. on Monday. The quake was measured nearly 2 miles southeast of Berkeley in the ...

A powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast of Russia triggered a brief tsunami advisory that was later canceled for some coastal areas of Alaska's Aleutian Islands Thursday. The ...

Powerhouse publishing and management company Primary Wave Music is expanding its brand division with the hiring of former top Atlantic Records exec Camille Hackney as head of brand partnerships, based ...

Mars may have a hardened heart. Marsquake reverberations detected by NASA’s InSight lander revealed that the Red Planet probably possesses a solid inner core, researchers report in the Sept. 4 Nature.

Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able ...