Earthquakes remain one of nature’s most terrifying forces. While we still can’t predict them, science has advanced in identifying where they’re most likely to occur. Our planet’s crust is made of ...

The New Yorker shook us up with “The Really Big One,” Kathryn Schulz’s long-form narrative examination of the forthcoming ...

Volcanoes across several US states have recently become active, while no immediate danger is reported, experts remain watchful as seismic activity continues.

Japan's new earthquake-sensing nervous system spans ocean fault zones, boosting tsunami warnings by up to 20 minutes and ...

Magma from the mantle finds its way to the surface, where it erupts as lava or ash and gas—sometimes in spectacular spurts, ...

This is now the largest recorded earthquake swarm at Mount Rainier since seismic monitoring at the volcano began in 1982, the ...

Geologists are continuing to monitor Mount Rainier in Washington state days after the first earthquake swarm in more than 15 ...

Volcanoes are rumbling as scientists monitor earthquakes at Washington's Mount Rainier and Alaska's Iliamna volcano.

A doomsday tsunami is likely to strike the US in the near future, but scientists say it's better if it hits sooner rather ...

Carl Tape's midsummer trek through ghost towns and newspaper clippings brings new insights to an earthquake nearly erased by time.

The U.S. Geological Survey said it and other agencies were monitoring the situation and would issue additional alerts "as needed." ...

CALIPATRIA– A 4.3-magnitude earthquake struck near the Salton Sea early Friday morning, jolting residents and triggering a ...