On social media a self-proclaimed earthquake predictor says he can forecast big shakes, but experts say it's pure luck.

The myth holds that small earthquakes relieve stress from a fault to the point that it prevents a larger earthquake from happening in the future. However, Tobin said that’s not how faults work.

From Napa to Santa Cruz, people felt the jolt of a 3.9 earthquake Monday. The epicenter was near the Calaveras fault. We take ...

In regions where tectonic stress is already high, these fluctuations might serve as the final push needed to trigger an earthquake. The idea that solar activity might influence earthquakes first ...

India has witnessed multiple earthquake tremors over the past year, raising concerns about disaster preparedness. Earthquakes ...

A research team in Japan has warned that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan has become large ...

Subduction zone earthquakes: This earthquake results from the tension of an oceanic plate slipping beneath a continental ...

Recent earthquakes in the region may have raised the threat of an earthquake occurring near the Cayman Islands, according to ...

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant’s radiation levels have significantly dropped since the cataclysmic meltdown 14 ...

Solar-driven temperature shifts alter rock properties and underground water movement, potentially making the Earth’s crust ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The properties of rocks in fault zones significantly influence earthquake generation, alongside fault stress. In the eastern Kanto region of Japan, where the ...