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The 40,000 casualties from the Turkey and Syria earthquakes shows how earthquake engineering and building codes are needed to preserve lives.

Three new earthquake faults have been found in Washington and could pose a seismic risk for the area as quakes have ruptured there in the past.

A simple electronic device found in nearly every smartphone today is helping students learn about the science of earthquakes in one general education...

The disastrous magnitude 7.0 earthquake that triggered destruction and mounting death tolls in Haiti this week occurred in a highly complex tangle of tectonic...

Our understanding and preparedness have come a long way since Northridge's magnitude 6.7 earthquake in 1994. We're still learning from that destructive temblor.

An earthquake swarm in Oklahoma earlier this month helped push the state to 62 temblors this year of magnitude 3.0 or more, and 2,724 of that magnitude or more...

Rupturing earthquake faults can cause a domino effect and set off other, nearby faults. A new study finds a limit to this influence though, with a rupture only...

The Fate of Sediment after a Large Earthquake, Seminar, School of Geography and Environmental Science, University of Southampton, UK

The Aug. 24 Napa earthquake woke several small, previously unrecognized faults, according to early UAVSAR results.

Researchers have built a seven-story, 275-ton building on the world's largest outdoor shake table and vibrated it to reproduce the motions of the powerful...

Dec 9, 2025 - On our Best Fiction of 2025 list, Emma Pattee imagines Portland’s worst Earthquake in her debut novel Tilt

Huge stresses beneath the surface moved plates of the Earth's crust hundreds of feet horizontally and dozens of feet vertically.

The USGS will be using planes to hunt for change in gravity that might indicate the location of the faults that caused the 2011 earthquake felt across the East...

The amount of energy released in an earthquake is controlled by how much of the crust breaks. The good news is, we're not likely to see a magnitude 10.

Syrian refugees have fled into regions that are very prone to earthquakes, which mean fatality estimates for this region could be underestimated.

Can earthquakes be predicted? No, but Caltech seismologists can estimate where earthquakes may be likely to strike by calculating probabilities and forecasts.

What differentiates earthquakes from aftershocks, and how do geologists interpret these events to understand what's happening in quake-prone regions?

The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 set seismic science on the path that led to today's advances.

Arrays of precisely drilled boreholes could scatter earthquake waves, deflecting them from expensive infrastructure like nuclear power plants.

A gallery of historical images from the quake and fire that ravaged the city 100 years ago this month.

Some tsunami-generating earthquakes are invisible to our monitoring systems.

A 7.9-magnitude earthquake struck off Kodiak, Alaska, this morning. A tsunami warning is in effect for parts of Alaska and British Columbia, Canada.