A moderately strong, 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck in the Philippines on Thursday, according to the United States ...

The new threat level issued by Japan’s Earthquake Research Committee is similar to estimates published in the journal ...

Seismologists have counted nine earthquakes in the Washington Cascades, in addition to the 3.5-magnitude event that happened near North Bend on Monday.

And those findings do apply to real-world earthquakes, said study author Jay Fineberg, a physicist at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. "The material composing the contacting plates will not ...

But the experiments revealed some basic physics of how fractures work — particularly how a buildup of friction at the interface of two bodies transforms into a sudden rupture. And those findings do ...

Uses USGS/MERIT Basin data to visualize the path of a rain droplet to its endpoint.

Moderate mag. 4.0 earthquake - Philippines: 019 km N 65° E of San Narciso (Quezon) on Monday, Jan 20, 2025, at 11:52 pm (GMT +8) Volcano Discovery 16:12 Mon, 20 Jan Significant earthquake of magnitude ...

Iezzi's team with the USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory monitors the Cascades daily. Their infrasound and seismic sensors detect cracks and movement from below as magma is forced upward.

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6 struck southern Taiwan early Tuesday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake hit at 12:17 a.m. (1600 GMT Monday), ...

Like fortune tellers who peer into a crystal ball for insight, volcanologists at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory peer ...