The Philippines was rocked with a 6.3 earthquake this morning that sent buildings swaying and people running for…
In the year 1700, an earthquake rocked the Pacific Northwest, sending tsunami waves not just toward the local coastline…
Scientists hope to employ networks of “dark fibers,” unused fiber optic cables, in order to sense sound waves moving…
Researchers used a grainy photograph of a toppled train combined with an eyewitness account to analyze the deadly…
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Alaska is now beginning to survey the damage of powerful back-to-back earthquakes that struck the area around Anchorage…
Between Mozambique and Madagascar lies the island of Mayotte. Since May 10, the French Geological Survey has been…
Indonesia is reeling from a series of geologically-triggered disasters. While it was still assessing the fallout from…
Late on Friday, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck near Sulawesi, Indonesia, quickly followed by a highly localized,…
The 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the eastern Indonesian island of Sulawesi on Friday is…
A series of earthquakes, including one that was magnitude 7.5, triggered a powerful tsunami on Indonesia’s Sulawesi…
The detection of strange, unpredicted behavior deep below the surface near the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults…
On September 19, 2017, a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck central Mexico, killing nearly 370 people. But something good…
When you knock off the defending World Cup champion, things are bound to get a little crazy. So it was in Mexico. In…
It turns out that 8,000 tiny plastic disks in a rotating drum could help scientists develop a technique to forecast…
A powerful earthquake struck Taiwan today, causing damage and a partially collapsed hotel building, sources report.
Early this morning, NOAA’s National Tsunami Warning Center issued tsunami warnings for the south coast of Alaska and…
It’s not often that science can answer questions with an easy “yes” or “no.” Usually it’s more of an “evidence…
A “strong magnitude 7.1 earthquake” struck the southern coast of Peru on Sunday morning, leaving at least one dead,…
Around the world, 24.2 million more people became homeless last year—and disasters like floods, droughts, earthquakes,…
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