A new physics-based model suggests Southern California’s Cajon Pass fault junction is critically stressed and could influence whether a future major earthquake spreads across two fault systems. Credit ...

Fans’ euphoric reactions to the Mexican national team’s recent victory in the 2026 World Cup caused a series of unusual ...

A research group led by Satoshi Ide from the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that classic earthquake generation theory does not hold in areas where the angle at which a tectonic plate dips under ...

Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the National Heat Risk Commission at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE. Europe's ...

In fault gouge, fluids drive chemical healing by cementing grains, a mechanism for seismic slip in rocks frictionally ...

Atorod Azizinamini, professor in the department of civil engineering, shares his insight on the earthquake and the importance ...

It was the Elgin area's first quake in weeks and the fourth in South Carolina over the past 30 days. Only a few people ...

Cui Kun, a prominent Chinese metal materials expert and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, died on Friday in ...

King County residents will see another significant increase in their sewer bills next year after county council members ...

On Wednesday evening, Venezuela was hit with its largest tremors in more than a century — toppling buildings and claiming more than 100 lives. The event, according to the US Geological Survey, was a ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with earthquake scientist Judith Hubbard of Cornell University about the science behind the multiple earthquakes in Venezuela, Japan and northern California Wednesday.

Earthquake alerts went off on devices in Redding seconds after a 5.6 temblor shook Northern California near Ukiah along ...