Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast ...

If the ocean floor had a nervous system, it might look something like this: thousands of miles of fiber-optic cables ...

Geologists discover that a huge prehistoric tsunami carried amber from coastal forests to deep waters in Japan 115 million ...

Authorities have evacuated dozens of people from remote islands in southern Japan that have been shaken by over 1,700 tremors ...

Japan has warned of a 70–80% chance of a magnitude 8–9 earthquake along the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years, which ...

On this day in 1956, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami hit Santorini, the largest to ever be recorded in Europe in the ...

A rare slow-motion earthquake discovered off Japan’s coast sheds light on tectonic behavior and may improve tsunami ...

In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one' ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

In a scientific first, researchers have tracked the elusive motion of a rare variety of earthquake during a seismic event ...

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck 208 kilometers (128 miles) from Riverton, New Zealand. The United States Geological Survey ...

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