The earthquake is believed to be a rare 'super shear' event, where the rupture in the earth's crust raced faster than seismic ...

An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck the Indonesian island of Seram on Monday, the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ)said.

Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie Rowe of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory at the University of Nevada, Reno and Alex Hatem of the U.S. Geological Survey sought ...

Basic services have yet to be restored to the areas of Myanmar worst hit by a huge earthquake three weeks ago, and emergency ...

In many Iranian cities, the ground is sinking due to land subsidence caused by the excessive extraction of water resources, ...

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake ripped across central Myanmar, producing one of the world’s largest fault ruptures and causing devastation across Myanmar and nearby regions. Seismologists ...

A 2.6 magnitude earthquake hit near Sammamish Friday afternoon, according to the USGS (United States Geological Survey). The ...

Flipping through a photo album, Wayne Hendrickson recalls the day when he witnessed the most powerful earthquake ever ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults?

Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 ...

After a massive earthquake hit Myanmar on March 28, social media posts falsely claimed images of a destroyed town showed the ...