First global map of mantle earthquakes reveals seismic activity far beneath continents, challenging old ideas about Earth’s ...

A new 3D subsurface model shows how variations in rock strength beneath the Marmara Sea could trigger future large earthquakes along the North Anatolian Fault. The findings improve understanding of ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new ...

There's been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked. Researchers are now putting actual seismic waves to work, ...

New research shows that a fragile clay layer beneath the Japan Trench played a key role in the extreme seafloor movement ...

Learn how seismic waves helped identify rare mantle earthquakes deep below Earth’s crust, offering new insight into the ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Envision this scenario: You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items within your home or workspace begin ...

More than 120 seismometers detected sonic booms from space debris and enabled its fall to be tracked with unprecedented ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...

The 1960 Great Chilean Earthquake was so powerful it triggered global tsunamis, months of aftershocks, and even slightly ...

The most violent of the earthquakes was a magnitude 4.2 shaker that was centered about 2½ miles southeast of downtown San ...