A scientific investigation dismantles the widespread claim that an Iranian earthquake was actually a secret nuclear test.

Minutes after a magnitude 4.5 earthquake hit Iran on October 5, 2024, rumors swirled that it wasn’t natural—claims that ...

Accurate assessment of the land surface damage (such as small-scale fracturing and inelastic deformation) from two major ...

An earthquake that struck Iran last year was misreported as a covert nuclear weapons test amid rising global tension, seismologists said.Researchers in the US studied seismic data after reports on ...

Literal groundbreaking research by Dr. Giorgio Arriga enhances our understanding of the long-term evolution of seismogenic ...

Seismologists are closely monitoring California's fault lines as concerns grow about the possibility that the "Big One" could happen soon. The "Big One" refers to a massive earthquake that could ...

JHU-led study on 2024 Iran earthquake shows potential consequences of mishandling and misinterpreting scientific information, ...

The earthquake occurred on Oct. 5 ... “In this case, the source was what we call a reverse fault - a motion associated with the Earth’s crust being crushed as the Arabian and Eurasian plates collide. ...

The temblor followed three earlier small earthquakes — a magnitude 2.7 that struck near the Hayward fault at 5:03 a.m., followed by a magnitude 3.3 at 11:52 a.m., then a 3.2 at 11:54 a.m. The ...

Japan intensified its scientific efforts to survey active faults and publicly disseminate seismic risk information in the aftermath of the Great Hanshin Earthquake that leveled parts of Kobe and ...