Scientists found that earthquake damage extends up to 60 miles from major faults, weakening rock and accelerating erosion.

Scientists have produced the first detailed global map of deep earthquakes occurring beneath continents, revealing a previously poorly understood system operating within the Earth's crust and upper ...

According to experts, large earthquakes frequently occur around the world each year because multiple tectonic plate ...

Scientists have discovered that seismic waves traveling to Earth’s core and back caused almost all of Japan to shift eastward ...

A moving country, a cosmic first, and much more! We start with a giant earthquake that may have moved Japan. A new analysis ...

A research group led by Satoshi Ide from the University of Tokyo has demonstrated that classic earthquake generation theory does not hold in areas where the angle at which a tectonic plate dips under ...

Japan’s catastrophic Tohoku-Oki earthquake in 2011 was so strong that it caused the entire country to “slip,” in some areas by as much as five or six millimeters, according to new research.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That’s what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her ...

Japan experiences around 1,500 earthquakes that are strong enough to be felt every year, a staggering figure that would seem ...

The phenomenon is called coastal uplift, and it happens when the seabed rises in response to the up-and-down movement of an earthquake ...

In 2011, Japan reeled from the effects of a devastating magnitude 9.0 earthquake. But unnoticed in the chaos resulting from the quake, its major aftershocks and the tsunami it caused, something ...