The earthquake disaster on March 11, 2011 was an event of the century not only for Japan. With a magnitude of Mw = 8.9, it was one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded worldwide. Two days ...

DENVER — An amazing new animation shows how earthquake waves travel across the United States, creating ripples over North America like a rock thrown into water. The animation was made possible ...

GPS data has been used to make a 3-D animation of the shaking of the massive 9.0 Japan earthquake that could help visualize earthquake and improve tsunami warnings and forecasts of aftershocks.

This time-lapse animation simulates how waves caused by the magnitude 8.2 earthquake in Chile on April 1 spread across the Pacific Ocean over 30 hours. The animation really highlights the reach of ...

As this animation shows, this is just this part of the world doing its thing and letting off some stress by triggering plenty of (mostly imperceptible) earthquakes. Look at these earthquakes, y'all!