The giant earthquake that ripped through central Myanmar earlier this year did something seismologists rarely see: it slid ...

The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that shook Japan on March 11 released hundreds of years of tectonic strain, and has provided researchers with clues about where such large quakes could strike in the ...

The Japanese archipelago is actively undergoing seismic shifts due to interactions between the oceanic plate and the continental plate. At the plate boundaries located directly beneath areas of Japan ...

A vast tectonic fault buried beneath Canada’s remote Yukon Territory is drawing urgent attention from seismologists after a landmark study revealed signs of renewed seismic strain. Long thought to be ...

Collapsed houses, destroyed port facilities and thousands of victims -- on 22 May 1766 an earthquake of approximately 7.5 magnitude units and a subsequent water surge triggered a catastrophe in ...

July 9 (UPI) --It's been more than 250 years since the last major earthquake struck Istanbul, the capital of Turkey. Though the nearby fault system has been silent for two-and-a-half centuries, new ...

So much water is pumped in and out of underground aquifers in the Los Angeles area that much of the landscape rises and falls more than 4 inches each year--a finding that is unsettling the ...

The half-minute of tremors that shook Haiti in January left death and destruction--and lingering questions about when and where another such quake might strike. Some 230,000 people died in the ...

Researchers say ubiquitous evidence for ongoing geological carbon sequestration in mantle rocks in the creeping sections of the San Andreas Fault is one underlying cause of aseismic creep along a ...

Istanbul is located in close proximity to the North Anatolian fault, a boundary between two major tectonic plates where devastating earthquakes occur frequently. Using an autonomous measuring system ...