Human activity can cause “healed” faults to release their stored strength, triggering unexpected quakes in tectonically stable regions.

Slow-motion earthquakes, as you might guess from the name, involve the release of pent-up geological energy over the course of days or weeks rather than minutes – and scientists have now recorded some ...

A shake alert went out over the U.S. Geological Survey's early warning system on Dec. 4, warning that a 5.9 earthquake near ...

A quiet Friday afternoon in central Myanmar was shattered on March 28, 2025, when a massive magnitude 7.7 earthquake tore through the region. The rupture followed the notorious Sagaing Fault, a strike ...

A powerful magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, triggering evacuation orders and a ...

The federal government and earthquake experts blamed a technical glitch for the alert that sent warnings hundreds of miles ...

Real Salt Lake can move into a playoff position with a home victory over the struggling San Jose Earthquakes on Saturday in Sandy, Utah. San Jose (7-9-8, 29 points) is just a point ahead of Salt Lake ...

The ShakeAlert system that warns about imminent shaking arriving from earthquakes sent a false alarm across California on ...

Mohammed Iskrane leads TRNN through the remains of Amsguine village, still largely destroyed nearly two years after the earthquake. Photo by Jaclynn Ashly. Omar Saed Omar, 52, is still grieving his ...