A new 3D subsurface model shows how variations in rock strength beneath the Marmara Sea could trigger future large ...

Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new ...

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 ...

With some luck, specialized equipment, a supervolcano and a narrow hole 30 stories deep, researchers demonstrated that ...

Seismologists Discover Hidden Faults Beneath One of the U.S.'s Biggest Earthquake Hotspots ...

BUTTE, Mont. — Envision this scenario: You are going about your day. All is calm and quiet until suddenly, the ground beneath your feet begins to shake, and items within your home or workspace begin ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in ...

The Mendocino Triple Junction off the coast of Northern California is the point where three tectonic plates meet. A new study reveals at least five moving pieces deep below the Earth's surface make up ...

For years, Charlotte Pearson and her colleagues at the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research have used tree‐ring science to travel back in time, hoping that clues from the past will ...

A 4.2 magnitude earthquake struck near Great Falls on Thursday, rattling residents across central Montana but causing minimal damage, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).