When Texas Started Shaking More Than California In 2023, Texas and California were nearly tied for the number of magnitude 3 ...

A deep earthquake in Chile surprised scientists by using heat to grow stronger far underground and cause serious surface ...

Scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego have come a step closer to deciphering some of the basic mysteries and mechanisms behind earthquakes and how average-sized earthquakes ...

Along some fault lines, which are the boundaries of tectonic plates, a fine-grained gravel is formed as the plates grind against one another. The influence of this gravel on earthquakes has long been ...

Earthquakes and imaged magmatic dike intrusion. Dots show machine-learning relocated earthquakes from 1 January to 28 February 2025 color-coded according to occurrence time (OTime). Orange patches ...

Supercomputing is bringing seismic change to earthquake science. A field that historically has predicted by looking back now is moving forward with HPC and physics-based models to comprehensively ...

An earthquake is a complicated process but knowing about it can save your life. The Earth averages about 55 earthquakes each day. But what exactly is an earthquake? Find out more about this geological ...

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile in July 2024—and it wasn’t supposed to be that strong. Unlike Chile ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - It did not take long for the memes to start in Mexico, offering a needed bit of levity on Monday after a powerful quake left buildings and people shaken on the anniversary of ...