One of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck Russia’s Far East early Wednesday, causing tsunami waves to wash ashore in Japan and Alaska and calls for people around the Pacific to be on alert ...

For her groundbreaking work in creating the earthquake information “hub” of the Earthquake Hazards Program, of the U.S.

On January 1, 2008, at 1:59 am in Calipatria, California, an earthquake happened. You haven’t heard of this earthquake; even if you had been living in Calipatria, you wouldn’t have felt anything. It ...

Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new global stress map, based on more than 100,000 measurements, reveals areas ...