An earthquake typically sets off ruptures that ripple out from its underground origins. But on rare occasions, seismologists ...

February is Earthquake Awareness Month, and the Mid-South sits directly above one of the most active fault systems in the ...

S. population is "somewhat likely" to experience a damaging earthquake in the coming decades, according to recently published seismic hazard models. Let's be real, most Americans think earthquakes ...

Earthquakes are generally understood to rupture outward from their starting point beneath the ground, sending seismic waves ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...

Scientists used supercomputer simulation to reveal the underlying mechanism by which the irregular fault geometry, characterized by multisegments, controlled the variation of the fault slip and ...

This satellite-based model of Earth shows the tectonic boundaries (yellow lines) in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The San Andreas Fault and the Cascadia Subduction Zone both occur along the North ...

At the Bedretto Underground Laboratory deep in the Swiss Alps, scientists are inducing tiny earthquakes along a natural fault zone in the hopes of understanding what can trigger—and prevent—a deadly ...

After 12,000 years of calm, a seismic outburst is brewing in northwestern Canada as an ancient geologic fault grows restless. The Tintina fault, which stretches across the Yukon Territory and ...

When a magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar on March 28, 2025, it wasn’t just another powerful tremor—it was a geological curveball. The quake ripped open more than 500 kilometers (317 miles) of the ...