An advanced, real-time tsunami forecasting system could dramatically improve early warning capabilities for coastal ...

The sixth most powerful earthquake on record triggered widespread evacuation orders across multiple countries including the ...

The first earthquake struck while the town was still asleep. Around 2:00 am on Dec. 16, 1811, New Madrid — a small frontier settlement of 400 people on land now located in Missouri — was jolted awake.

In India, Viral Dalal is awoken - suddenly and violently - by a devastating earthquake.

This drill was as real as it gets. Team members cut through concrete rubble and shattered glass to reach crushed cars. Some simulated victims were pulled to safety.

But this pattern has been missing in real earthquake data, vexing seismologists. Now, though, a high-resolution catalog of millions of earthquakes in Southern California may have cracked the mystery.

Real aftershocks are possible after big earthquakes — but imagined ones can happen, too. It’s a phenomenon called “phantom earthquakes,” Dr. Daniel Glaser of King’s College London wrote ...