A research team from University of Tsukuba and collaborating institutions has clarified why M9-class megathrust earthquakes ...

Three huge tectonic plates meet at the Mendocino triple junction off the coast of northern California, and a new study ...

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 ...

USGS geologists Josie Nevitt and Beth Haddon make measurements of fault rupture. (Ben Brooks, USGS) The U.S. Geological Survey and the Global Earthquake Model Foundation signed an agreement that will ...

According to researchers from Science Tokyo, a new three-dimensional model of the fault beneath the Marmara Sea in Turkey reveals where a future major earthquake could take place. Using ...

A new international study seen in Communications Earth & Environment and led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Professor Martin Mai and scientist Bo Li has advanced ...

Researchers are adding a new wrinkle to a long-held belief about what causes earthquakes in the first place. Findings published in Nature by a team of Brown-led researchers challenge traditional ...

On New Year's Day 2024, a massive 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in north central Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to ...