Residents on the popular island of Santorini have experienced hundreds of earthquakes this week while researchers have ...

The Greek island has a long history of earthquakes, but what is causing the recent series of quakes has scientists perplexed.

Disaster response units deployed as tremors of up to magnitude four rock popular holiday destination every few minutes ...

You can’t predict it and there’s no reason to predict there’s going to be anything worse,” one geosciences professor said.

The magnitude 7.9 Bonin Islands earthquake sequence, which ruptured deep within the earth near the base of the upper mantle, did not include an aftershock that extended to record depths into the lower ...

Earthquakes form when two tectonic plates moving against one another get stuck, allowing the fault to build up stress. "The plates are increasingly stressed by the forces trying to move them ...

The earthquake took place within the Izu-Bonin ... Plastic deformation "limits the formation of extensive fracture networks that would typically generate aftershocks," he said.

There are a number of hazards caused by plate tectonics including earthquakes and tsunamis. Earthquakes have both primary effects (such as the destruction of buildings) and secondary effects (such ...

A minor earthquake measuring 2.9 on the Richter scale struck Ranau, Sabah, at 3.16pm today. According to the Malaysian ...