With Australia's most significant earthquake disaster occurring more than 35 years ago, many people consider quakes to be quite rare in Australia. But it turns out they're more common than you'd think ...

Scientists have finally solved a long-standing mystery about the geologic process behind these large pieces of gold found in quartz rock.

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Interestingly enough, earthquakes have the ability to cause quartz to form large gold nuggets, a fact that has been well-known among scientists for decades. What has managed to elude them for just ...

On May 12, 2008, the magnitude 7.9 Wenchuan earthquake shook central China, its destructive tremors spreading from the flank of the Longmen Shan, or Dragon's Gate Mountains, along the eastern margin ...

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While most of our earthquakes don’t shake many people up, more knowledge about past earthquakes can help us to prepare better for when the next big one happens.

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