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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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. ...

As the viral shaking in New York City in 2024 illustrated, earthquakes stoked by shifting faults do rattle the Eastern U.S. from time to time. Perhaps, thought Hough, the Summerville ghost's ...

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 ...

An aftershock is usually a smaller earthquake that follows a larger one in the same general area. Aftershocks are typically minor adjustments along the portion of a fault that slipped at the time ...

Aftershocks are a sequence of earthquakes that occur near the epicenter of a quake or in proximity to where the main “rupture” in a fault line occurred, and are part of the readjustment ...

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 ...