I was just a kid when 1994’s devastating Northridge earthquake hit, but I still remember waking up to the shaking in the ...

You’ve seen the images of sloshing pools, and scattered and smashed bottles in the stores of Ridgecrest, epicenter of the largest earthquake to hit Southern California in nearly 20 years. Many of us ...

Three 'superfactors' combined to produce the 2025 Myanmar earthquake - one of the longest and fastest-moving ruptures ever ...

Researchers report that their physics-based model of California earthquake hazards replicated estimates from the state's leading statistical model. Earthquakes pose a profound danger to people and ...

A new tool from the California Geological Survey (CGS) allows people to check if their property is in a regulatory earthquake hazard zone. As California is no stranger to earthquakes, this app could ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Two of the most destructive forces of nature—earthquakes and ...

A research team studied earthquake hazard maps from five countries and found that all the maps seemed to overpredict the historically observed earthquake shaking intensities. In analyzing the possible ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook Oklahoma on Saturday, tied for the strongest quake ever recorded in the state. Odds are it was triggered by fracking operations, specifically the subsurface injection ...

A powerful earthquake that struck Calama in 2024 defied long-held assumptions about how deep earthquakes behave. In July 2024, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck the city of Calama in northern Chile, ...