Only 3-5 of annual quakes are felt or noticed by residents, with 70% of them occurring in the Middleton Place-Summerville ...

The reappearance of long-forgotten habitats and the resurgence of species unseen for years may not be among the expected effects of a natural disaster. Yet that's exactly what researchers have found ...

The effects of earthquakes on wildlife have not been well studied, but in some cases it can cause even the extinction of a species.

Most of what we know about earthquakes and volcanoes is based on what we can observe at the Earth's surface. However, most of the action -- especially early activity that could help with disaster ...

CAPTAIN DUTTON'S valuable memoir on the Charleston earthquake of 1886 contains many accounts of the effects of this great earthquake on human beings. Nowhere could they be more vivid than in ...

Big earthquakes might make sea level rise worse. Here's how. The Samoan islands are sinking faster than expected due to warming alone, and a pair of huge quakes is likely to blame.

The study, by Dr. S.M. Dean of the University of Southampton in Southampton, UK, and colleagues, is titled, "Contrasting Décollement and Prism Properties over the Sumatra 2004-2005 Earthquake ...

"We should count it as a win that a tsunami occurred, we got a warning and it wasn’t the worst-case scenario," a seismic ...

A tsunami warning issued for Hawaii after one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded, an 8.8 magnitude in Russia's Far ...