A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical ...

Fault Slippage: Sudden movements along fault lines release stored energy, causing earthquakes. Isostatic Rebound: Sometimes, after glaciers melt or erosion occurs, the Earth's crust adjusts itself ...

A Look at How Earthquakes Are Measured. Earthquake strength is registered on the moment magnitude scale, which measures how much energy was released when the rocks along a fault moved during the ...

Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...

An earthquake is triggered when there is a sudden release of energy that then causes seismic waves and causes the ground to shake. Dr. Julian Lozos, ...

The energy released by the earthquake was 32 petajoules, Januka Attanayake told the New York Times, equivalent to nearly 8 million tons of TNT.

The 7.8-magnitude Turkey-Syria earthquake released 30 quadrillion joules of energy. Explore how magnitudes are logarithmically measured and who much energy is released.

Earthquake energy is also released thermally and mechanically. This means there are three categories that comprise the “earthquake energy budget,” or the total energy released by an earthquake.