Each blow sends a clang echoing down the street and vibrations deep into the ground. In a lab half a mile away, scientists watch their screens to see whether those vibrations register on a seismometer ...

Bowen Wang built Aftershock Oracle after earthquakes near the San Andreas Fault disturbed his sleep. The award-winning ...

Scientists discovered that deep earthquake faults can heal far faster than expected, sometimes within hours. Slow slip events in Cascadia reveal repeated fault movements that only make sense if the ...

Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That's what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in Earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her data from a bird's-eye ...

A 14-year-old student from Williamsburg, Virginia, has become one of 30 finalists in a national science competition after ...

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

A research group led by Satoshi Ide from the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that classic earthquake generation theory does not hold in areas where the angle at which a tectonic plate dips under ...

Can animals sense earthquakes? For years there have been reports of animals acting differently leading up to earthquakes. Science investigates. Image via vizslafotozas/ Pixabay. For centuries, people ...