When a seismologist visited the site of the 2019 Ridgecrest earthquakes two days after the event, he noticed something strange. Pebble- to boulder-sized rocks clearly had been moved by the earthquakes ...

Computer simulations are helping scientists and engineers improve predictions for liquefaction — a sometimes deadly earthquake effect where the soil loses its stiffness, thus toppling buildings and ...

A shallow earthquake struck 9 miles (14 km) north of Susanville, California in the United States. The quake had a very ...

The devastating earthquake that struck Japan earlier this year was powerful enough to slightly alter the pull of gravity under the affected area, scientists now find. Anything that has mass has a ...

Handful of lava pebbles thrown into the air. A new study shows how strong shaking at a fault has rocks—briefly—defying gravity. When Julian Lozos, a seismologist at California State University, ...

Movement along fault lines may be a strong indicator of when large earthquakes will occur, according to a team of researchers from UC Berkeley and Japan. In a report published in the journal Science ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are color-coded according to their hypocenter depth (upper right colorbar, U.S.