When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...

Such a scenario appears to have happened with Mr Dmitruk, who has no science background ... millions of Americans participate ...

Full Waveform Inversion (FWI) is capable of finely characterizing the velocity structure, anisotropy, viscoelasticity, and attenuation properties of subsurface media, which provides critical ...

On a dynamic planet like Earth, it can be easy for drivers of change to go unnoticed – but scientists have now established ...

Researchers in Japan discovered that computer models incorporating Earth’s surface temperatures simulated past earthquakes more ... of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology also took ...

Ian Randall is Newsweek's Deputy Science Editor ... may play a role in triggering quakes here on Earth—a finding that could be used to improve earthquake predictions by factoring in solar ...

NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...

A magnitude 6.7 earthquake that rocked the bottom of the South Island struck in a seismic environment poorly understood by ...

Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive histories and resulting chemical composition, in contrast to the common assumption they are the same.

Yihe Huang, lead author and U-M associate professor of earth ... published in Science Advances, suggest that the properties of rocks may contribute equally to the generation of earthquakes ...