Scientists have uncovered a hidden weakness beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s catastrophic 2011 ...

From the earthquake in Venezuela to Mindanao, all share a similarity, namely being in the Pacific Ring of Fire. Why is the ...

By modeling dehydration-driven fluid pressure, a new study links deep fluids to where megathrust earthquakes end and slow slip begins.

An unusual seismic signal recorded less than a minute before a widely felt magnitude 4.2 earthquake in central Alaska may ...

Tiny earthquakes that emerge in a strikingly linear pattern revealed the Yakutat microplate, which may be focusing volcano ...

Receiver function images of the lithospheric structure with seismicity and topography. (Miller et al., The Seismic Record, ...

According to a study by the US Geological Survey and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, earthquake damage costs the US approximately $14.7 billion a year. The US has experienced several powerful ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Two powerful earthquakes—magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5—struck northern ...

Thousands of previously undetected tiny earthquakes have revealed the edge of a miniature tectonic plate slamming into Alaska near the Denali Fault. The microplate could be focusing seismic energy in ...

Scientists have confirmed that a mysterious Utah earthquake first detected in 1979 really did occur nearly 90 kilometers underground—far deeper than anyone thought earthquakes could happen beneath a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — A magnitude 6.1 earthquake off the northwestern coast of Cuba was felt across parts of Central Florida on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. UPDATE: USGS confirms ...