Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, triggering unexpected quakes in tectonically stable regions.

A powerful 6.0 magnitude earthquake has shaken southcentral Alaska, jolting residents around Anchorage and rippling across ...

Beneath Yellowstone Lake, roughly 300 feet underground, a swarm of more than 2,000 small earthquakes in 2021 triggered a ...

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course of days or weeks rather than minutes – and scientists have now recorded some ...

Up to now, there was no way of predicting whether a powerful earthquake was likely to be followed by one of even greater magnitude. But the results of a study recently published in Nature by Laura ...

Earthquake forecasting tools powered by AI can forecast the risk of aftershocks seconds after the initial tremor, a new study ...

Real Salt Lake can move into a playoff position with a home victory over the struggling San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday in Sandy, Utah. San Jose (7-9-8, 29 points) is just a point ahead of Salt Lake ...

A mysterious swarm of earthquakes that occurred near the Greek island of Santorini in early 2025 was caused by rebounding ...

A team of researchers from The University of Texas at Austin (UT), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), and Scripps ...