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

A strong Panama earthquake of magnitude 6.2 struck off the coast, causing no injuries or tsunami warnings in the region.

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

Japan has completed the world’s most advanced undersea earthquake and tsunami detection system—3,500+ miles of fiber-optic ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

New research reveals that only the oldest and fastest-sinking oceanic plates can transport water deep into Earth’s mantle, ...

The little-known species with a “ribbon-like body” is believed by some cultures to be a harbinger of destructive events like ...

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

Japan’s new earthquake-detection network lengthens warning times, and researchers in Wales have harnessed nuclear blast detectors to gauge tsunami risks. But the U.S. lags in monitoring the massive Ca ...

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

A 2.9 magnitude earthquake struck Wednesday morning off the coast of Northern California, according to the United States Geological Survey. The quake, centered in the Pacific Ocean about 40 miles ...

While earthquakes do occur on occasion in Florida, what you felt last night wasn't an earthquake, at least according to the U ...