Today we're talking earthquake preparedness. Before you click next because you think you don't live in an area prone to earthquakes, let me just point out that, according to the USGS, states including ...

Elastic Rebound Theory This gradual accumulation and release of stress and strain is now referred to as the "elastic rebound ...

Scientists are deliberately triggering earthquakes from a tunnel deep beneath the Alps. Although it may sound like something out of a James Bond movie, the goal isn't turmoil and destruction. Rather, ...

In 1979, the University of Minnesota’s Harold Mooney estimated that Minnesota’s average recurrence rate for a magnitude 4 ...

An earthquake measuring magnitude 3.9 struck north of the San Francisco Bay Area on Nov. 24, according to the USGS.

Climate change does its damage in a lot of ways—birthing hurricanes, heat waves, floods, droughts, and wildfires. Now add to ...

Just because the federal government has been shut down since Oct. 1, it doesn’t mean Mother Nature is also taking a break and waiting around for the government to reopen. East Tennessee, a region ...

MIT scientists have unraveled the hidden energy balance of earthquakes by recreating them in the lab. Their findings show that while only a sliver of energy goes into the shaking we feel on the ...

Scientists in Switzerland are deliberately triggering tiny earthquakes deep in the Alps to study how quakes start. Using water injection and thousands of sensors, they aim to predict dangerous faults, ...