The Kuril-Kamchatka region frequently experiences large (M>=7) and great (M>=8) earthquakes. In the 114 years since 1900, 133 large and 12 great earthquakes have occurred along the arc. Damaging ...

Buildings in the capital of Taipei shook for about a minute, however, there were no immediate reports of major damage.

A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck Taiwan at a depth of 10 kilometers on Wednesday, rattling the island and prompting swift ...

A powerful Olympian, and the Greek god of the sea. This deity was unruly and rebellious, capable of mass destruction through earthquakes and floods. He stuck his nose in the business of both gods and ...

A research team utilized teleseismic double-difference tomography technology to uncover the morphological changes of the ...

Efthymis Lekkas, president of the Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization (OASP), reassured the public, stating that the primary quake appears to be a “one-off” event — a characteristic of ...

From the deep-seated movements of the Andaman Megathrust ... It produces shallow-focus earthquakes, which can be particularly damaging in densely populated areas. Recent studies in paleoseismology ...

Deep in Southeast Asia ... been responsible for many of the country’s seismic events, including shallow-focus earthquakes that have struck populated regions. Recent paleoseismological and ...

But these earthquakes can still be incredibly destructive, not least because they tend to take place at lesser depths; the focus of this one is estimated to have been just 10km deep. In such cases ...

and deep earthquakes from 300 to 700 km. In general, the term “deep-focus earthquakes” refers to earthquakes that occur deeper than 70 km. All earthquakes deeper than 70 km occur within large slabs of ...