Was that an earthquake you just felt or merely a big truck rumbling by? You don't have to wonder thanks to the U.S.

For the first time, scientists have directly observed the movement of a slow earthquake at the bottom of the ocean. These imperceptible events on a human timescale could play a key role in ...

A series of multiple earthquakes hit the township of Randolph throughout July 21, the latest in a week of high seismic ...

Earthquake faults are common in subduction zones, where one tectonic plate is slowly moving beneath another. In the U.S., major subduction zones exist in the Cascadia region of the Pacific ...

Earthquakes are one of Earth's biggest and deadliest natural disasters. Here we explore earthquakes in more detail while uncovering how and why they happen.

Earthquakes, large and small, happen every single day along zones that wrap around the world like seams on a baseball. Most don’t bother anybody, so they don’t make the news. But every now and ...

Earthquakes are a fact of life in this part of the world, so as soon as an earthquake ends, it’s business as usual. Err… more jelly please! …Oh. Asks for more jelly in Japanese.

During an earthquake (or marsquake), four main types of waves are generated: p-waves, s-waves, Love waves, and Rayleigh waves. VectorMine (Dreamstime.com) P-waves and s-waves make up a group ...

Early Friday, a major 7.7 magnitude earthquake that originated near Mandalay, Myanmar, shook the Earth as far as Bangkok, about 800 miles away. Two hard-hit cities in Myanmar suffered extensive ...