Seismic activity plays a crucial role in understanding Earth's geological processes, from monitoring natural hazards to imaging subsurface structures. Traditional earthquake detection relies on ...

What created the Noto Peninsula landscape we know today? After examining the devastation from the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, researchers have a theory.

The Wasatch Fault Zone is due for a major earthquake, and Utahns can take additional steps to be better prepared.

Land topography is usually formed gradually over long periods of time, but sometimes a single event can dramatically change ...

Crews are finishing up digging a 125-foot hole to install a test foundation that they'll use to test the earthquake-resistant ...

Additional information collected about the earthquake may also prompt U.S.G.S. scientists to update the shake-severity map. An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one ...

"We are a long way off from predicting natural earthquakes, but understanding the physics of labquakes and how they evolve allows us to better understand the mechanics of real earthquakes," said ...

The earthquake was recorded around 5:30 p.m. local time in Taiwan. Taiwan's Central Weather Administration (CWA) reports the epicenter was near Chiayi County outside of Yujing and had a depth of 6 ...

These two earthquakes came in 1934 and 1950. The map below shows some larger earthquakes in the region from 1908 to 2025. The Eurasian-Indian plate boundary cuts across the northernmost parts of ...

The earthquake made a minor impact at around 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The epicenter of the quake was in Wyndham, Va., a suburb of Richmond in Henrico County, according to the USGS. "We're aware of a ...

A 2.8 magnitude earthquake occurred at about 5:30 p.m. local time on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), with the epicenter ... Survey map of where the 2.8 magnitude ...