A deep earthquake in Chile surprised scientists by using heat to grow stronger far underground and cause serious surface ...

When an earthquake occurs, most of us think about the ground shaking. But recent research shows that shaking is just a small part of what is happening. In fact, most of the energy released during an ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

MIT scientists have unraveled the hidden energy balance of earthquakes by recreating them in the lab. Their findings show that while only a sliver of energy goes into the shaking we feel on the ...

Last week, a magnitude 7 earthquake ripped through the Hubbard Glacier, on the Alaska-Yukon border. Now, fieldwork by the Yukon Geological Survey (YGS) has revealed localized avalanches and serac ...