Two earthquakes this year that struck China’s southwest Yunnan province, dotted with major Himalayan rivers and dams, are stirring up concerns that the seismic zone may be becoming more active ...

Researchers, including Zhu Hongbin from the Beijing Earthquake Agency, analysed nearly 150 years of seismic data, starting 1879, and found six major seismic “active periods” in the region.

The research team utilized continuous noise data collected from a dense seismic array located in the Anninghe fault zone, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, southwest China, combined with seismic ...

In a paper published in National Science Review, scientists present evidences that tidal forces have a significant impact on temporal variations in seismic velocity within fault fracture zones.

"It was a non-seismic zone, ... according to South China Morning Post newspaper. A map of a “seismic event” consistent with an airplane crash on the sea floor close to where missing Malaysia ...

Photo Courtesy of Xinhua News Agency Former Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao holds a megaphone at a disaster site after a 2008 earthquake that killed 80,000 people. A dam in Wenchuan Country was near ...