Every year, the Earth shakes thousands of times. Most of those tremors go unnoticed, felt only by sensitive instruments buried deep in the ground. Occasionally, though, one of them tears apart cities, ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - From the rumble of volcanoes to cracks of thunder, Earth has always been noisy. Separating noise from signal is key in many scientific fields, but where do you go to get away ...

Studying earthquakes can be a tricky business, especially as scientists don’t know exactly when or where they’ll strike. The Fault Activation and Earthquake Rupture (FEAR) project—a new facility deep ...

Scientists discovered that deep earthquake faults can heal far faster than expected, sometimes within hours. Slow slip events in Cascadia reveal repeated fault movements that only make sense if the ...

On a warm August afternoon, on a quiet side street in Arcata, a group of Cal Poly Humboldt students are taking turns swinging a sledgehammer against a small steel plate on the ground. They pause for ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - A grad student at UAF is helping with an Alaska Earthquake Center project aimed at developing a new method for better locating offshore earthquakes that could be integrated ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with earthquake scientist Judith Hubbard of Cornell University about the science behind the multiple earthquakes in Venezuela, Japan and northern California Wednesday. We ...

On Wednesday evening, Venezuela was hit with its largest tremors in more than a century. It toppled buildings and claimed more than 500 lives, authorities said Friday. The event, according to the US ...

That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever an earthquake strikes, many may wonder what caused the earthquake and ...