Earthquakes are some of nature’s most destructive forces, but what if we could better predict where they might strike? A new ...

New global stress map reveals areas where the Earth's crust is on the verge of collapse, doubling the data and changing ...

A new report has revealed the 10 US cities that are most vulnerable to earthquake damage in 2025, and the list may surprise you. Home Gnome, a home services booking company, evaluated 206 of the ...

Once considered geologically impossible, earthquakes in stable regions like Utah and Groningen can actually occur due to long ...

As catastrophic as the 2011 northern Japan quake and tsunami was—killing more than 15,000 people and causing more than $200 billion in economic damages—in a way, the country was lucky. Tokyo, a city ...

Here’s a harsh truth: the ground shakes the same for everyone. But, who survives tells a different story. California faces quakes 50 times stronger than some Asian ones. Yet, they lose just a few ...

Their study, published in Nature Communications, found that after millions of years of inactivity, stress can quietly build ...

Climate change is accelerating continental rifting, the geological process where landmasses slowly pull apart. According to a ...

A long-feared monster earthquake off California, Oregon and Washington could cause some coastal areas to sink by more than 6 feet, dramatically heightening the risk of flooding and radically reshaping ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

Fears of a devastating tsunami faded Wednesday for the U.S. and Japan after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off a sparsely populated Russian peninsula, but new alerts along South ...

The Budget includes a commitment to work with the insurance industry to address the growing risk of earthquake losses, ...