The intensity used in the study serves ... The map also doesn’t serve as a forecast for where a strong-intensity earthquake will happen, but rather highlights the areas at a higher chance ...

The discovery of a new fault line may explain the unusually strong and displaced shaking from April’s magnitude 4.8 ...

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

As urban areas expand, the threat of natural disasters becomes a pressing concern for city planners and disaster management ...

Similar quakes in the region in the future, a seismologist warned, "could maybe focus energy toward population centers." ...

Analysis by the Columbia Climate School’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory found the quake took place on a previously ...

Scientists have mapped seismic stress across North America in unprecedented detail, revealing the areas ... map, said in a press release. Zoback and his team described their mapping work in a ...

When a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck northern New Jersey's Tewksbury township on April 5, it triggered widespread alarm as ...

In earthquake-prone areas like Japan, there is a need for better prediction of soil stability to mitigate liquefaction risks.

The study does not say that changes in climate or weather are directly causing earthquakes. Instead, it suggests that the rate of earthquakes in a given area could increase or decrease because of ...

Your phone blares, "Earthquake!" The voice instructs ... Tobin and other researchers are working to map the fault's structure. Their latest study may have uncovered some good news: The Cascadia ...