Fault

The man who predicted an earthquake and why what he did was impossible

A 2022 satellite photo shows smoke rising from a caldera on Tofua, highlighting the "looming threat" of the volcanic island.

Nearly 500 buildings in the state capital get their heat from a clean, renewable source located deep in the ground.

Now we just have to find it.

Newly discovered lunar ridges have provided the first evidence of recent geological activity on the far side of the moon. The post Is the moon geologically dead? Maybe not, says new evidence first appeared on EarthSky.

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.

Earthquakes have caused disasters since early California. Destruction from wildfires is a modern phenomenon.

The Pamukkale travertines are limestone slopes and thermal water pools that have attracted visitors since before the days of Ancient Greece, when the spa town of Hierapolis was founded at the top.

A 6.4-magnitude earthquake has struck southern Taiwan, leaving 27 people with minor injuries and some reported damage

An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.6 has rattled the island of Kyushu in southwestern Japan, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said Monday.

A huge magnitude 7.1 earthquake has hit the holy city of Shigatse, or Xigazê, in the autonomous region of Tibet in China.

An international marine research team guided by Cornell expertise has successfully completed an ambitious drilling project to investigate the plate boundary fault that ruptured during the Tohoku earthquake that devastated Japan in 2011.

Climate change may influence seismic activity as melting glaciers reduce pressure on quake-prone faults

A tsunami warning has been lifted after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit offshore Cape Mendocino in Northern California Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.

New research by Winnie Kortemeier, professor of geosciences at Western Nevada College, places Tahoe in the pantheon of ancient lakes in the world.

Small tsunami waves splashed ashore on some Japanese islands after an earthquake that may have been triggered by volcanic activity

A study published in the journal Earthquake Research Advances sheds light on the relationship between the 2024 magnitude 7.6 Noto Hanto earthquake and a sizable earthquake swarm that began beneath Japan's Noto Peninsula in November 2020.

Located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is one of the most earthquake-prone countries in the world, with thousands of small earthquakes occurring each year, and the continuous threat of a "big one." Currently, predicting when major earthquakes will occur isn't possible, but by studying the numerous small earthquakes that occur, seismologists in Japan hope to understand more about the processes in the Earth's…

My favorite place in the world isn't a fixed location. It's the JOIDES Resolution, an internationally funded research ship that has spent its service life constantly on the move, from deep in the Antarctic to high in the Arctic.