A new study suggests the seismic energy traveled outward from a previously unmapped fault, emanating from the hypocenter in ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

The Big One. Those three words make locals along the West Coast of North America shudder with fear. This area is plagued by earthquakes. But hey, at least they are ready. Unlike the middle of the ...

The Earth's plates jostle about in fits and starts that are punctuated with earthquakes and volcanic ... millions of years from now eastern Africa will split from the continent to form a new ...

A newly found fault line with a rare slanted angle shows why an earthquake rattled New York City in April harder than its ...

www.earthquaketrack.com notes that Kenya has not experienced any earthquakes in the last 24 hours nor in a month. Simply put, an earth tremor is a sudden shaking of the ground that causes ...

Beautiful beaches. Majestic mountains. Hollywood. One more thing Southern California is known for: earthquakes.

So how are government officials and organizations preparing for and analyzing earthquakes so the region ... complement of stories from the "When The Earth Shakes" series below.

Students and faculty in Saint Louis University’s Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science have made significant contributions to the field of earthquake seismology and to earthquake hazards, ...

As a former claims handler and fraud investigator, Jason Metz has worked on a multitude of complex and multifaceted claims. The insurance industry can be seemingly opaque, and Jason enjoys ...

The final threat of earthquakes in the Northwest comes from volcanic activity. The moving magma beneath the earth’s surface causes changing pressure on the tectonic plates. The changing pressure ...