Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical ...

Scientists have discovered a rhythmic pulse beneath Africa’s surface.

According to the USGS, the Myanmar earthquake occurred because the India and Eurasia plates were rubbing sideways against each other, a motion described as “strike-slip faulting”.

While 7.0 earthquakes are rare, they — and thousands of weaker ones — happen on a regular basis off the Humboldt coast near Ferndale, south of Eureka, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

This schematic diagram shows the Nankai Trough, which forms a trench-like topography on the seabed where the Philippine Sea Plate and the Eurasian Plate meet. Japan Meteorological Agency The ...

When plates interact at their boundaries through spreading, collision and subduction, earthquakes are produced. Within immobile plates, earthquakes are not expected.

But not all earthquakes occur along plate boundaries. For example, an earthquake near New Madrid, Missouri in the winter of 1811 was thousands of miles from the nearest fault, yet the magnitude 7. ...