Multiple notable earthquakes have struck the United States this year, including a powerful quake in California and a historic event on the East Coast earlier in 2024. Strong earthquakes can lead to ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. People stand by a collapsed building in Mandalay on March 28, 2025, after a deadly magnitude 7.7 ...

The film discusses the science of earthquakes, focusing on a significant earthquake recorded in Berkeley, California, that originated in Eastern Turkey. It explains how seismographs detect seismic ...

Earthquakes may be unpredictable, but their impacts are not entirely mysterious. New modeling techniques are offering a clearer view beneath the surface.

Scientists assessed an unprecedented 120 years of data from K lauea Volcano on Hawai'i Island, uncovering, for the first time, century-spanning patterns of deformation and stress changes. They had a ...

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets. When you ...

That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever an earthquake strikes, many may wonder what caused the earthquake and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. - A new study shows a Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake could injure 27,000 people, displace 85,000, kill 1,400 and cause $37 billion in damage to buildings in the Portland metro area ...

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar (formerly Burma) Friday (March 28), shaking Mandalay, the country's second-largest city, as well as nearby countries, including China and ...