Two major seaquakes have struck the Atlantic, setting off tsunami monitoring stations along the US East Coast and sparking ...

The seafloor off northern Japan shifted at 7.30 am (Japan Standard Time) on Thursday morning, and within seconds, the shaking reached the fishing towns of the Sanriku coast. A magnitude 6.9 earthquake ...

The largest tremor was felt more than 12 miles away from the epicentre in the village of Silverdale.

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Peru's Andes region, killing at least six people, injuring more than 30 and displacing around 300 residents, according to authorities. Emergency teams rushed to the ...

Japan is well known for its large earthquakes, but not all regions show the same patterns of earthquake activity. One way to understand which places tend to experience large or small earthquakes is ...

A powerful 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck Japan, triggering a tsunami warning. Here's the science behind what happens after a major quake and why aftershocks can be dangerous. A powerful ...

Authors Diego Melgar, Amanda M. Thomas, Valerie J. Sahakian, Pieter-Ewald Share, Andrew Meigs, Harold Tobin, Lydia M. Staisch, Timothy Melbourne, Jill Elizabeth ...

Following the devastating urban fire that broke out in Wajima City after Japan's 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, investigators struggled to identify a clear ignition source, despite widespread ...

Over the past 120 years, a single tectonic event is responsible for over 20 per cent of the energy released from all the earthquakes that have occurred. May 23rd marked the 60th anniversary of the ...

Two major earthquakes occurred in Venezeula on June 24, the first a magnitude 7.2 and the second a magnitude 7.5 a minute later. It is estimated that thousands of people have died and several thousand ...

This time: Whidbey Island on the night of July 1. And while a magnitude 3.8 isn't necessarily a strong earthquake, and this only produced weak-to-light shaking, it's a relatively stronger magnitude ...

A major earthquake on the Seattle Fault could send a tsunami into Elliott Bay, and while such an event is rare, scientists say Washington's history of seismic activity is rarely at regular intervals.