A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Russia's Far Eastern Kamchatka coast on Wednesday (July 30), triggering tsunami warnings across the Pacific. It was one of the strongest quakes ever recorded ...

When a 4.4-magnitude earthquake rattled Los Angeles on Aug.13, it didn’t come as a complete surprise to everybody. About a million Californians got an early alert on their phones that a quake was ...

At around 10:44 Pacific Time on December 5, a huge earthquake struck around 60 miles off the coast of California. The magnitude 7 quake triggered a tsunami alert for some cities in northern California ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — A social media account claiming to have the ability to predict earthquakes received more than 70,000 views on a post stating that the Bay Area has a very high chance of a major ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault surfaces to the possibility of earthquake occurrences. Published in the ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists can do is map the hidden layers beneath the surface that control how ...

Scientists have built a lab model that visually tracks how microscopic contact points between fault surfaces evolve during earthquake cycles, revealing the hidden mechanics behind both the slow ...

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