The devastatingly destructive earthquake in Japan is being called the largest in the country's recorded history. The Japanese have been keeping records of seismic aberrations for centuries. But ...

New Insights into Paleoseismic Age Models on the Northern San Andreas Fault: Charcoal Inbuilt Ages and Updated Earthquake Correlations. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America , 2020 DOI ...

The chips and stumps were fresh evidence that the 1838 earthquake ruptured the ground during the history of Spanish settlement throughout the Santa Cruz Mountains and at the Hazel Dell foothill ...

In the wake of a magnitude 5.1 earthquake rattling near Midland Monday evening, Texas geology experts are giving further insight into some of the causes behind these quakes.

Atsuko Hirai, the Kazushige Hirasawa Professor of History, offers personal and historical insights into the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in a Sun Journal story by Brian Klonoski.. Hirai, a native of ...

Earthquakes have rocked the planet for eons. Studying the quakes of old could help scientists better understand modern tremors, but tools to do such work are scarce. Enter zircons. Researchers ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- In the waning months of 2018, two of the mightiest deep earthquakes ever recorded in human history rattled the Tonga-Fiji region of the South Pacific. In the first-ever study ...

Nearly 75% of the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii, could experience a damaging earthquake sometime within the next century, USGS study finds.

An earthquake in Sisak, Croatia, forced renovations to the local city hall, and revealed a Roman-era theater in the basement ...