When the island of Santorini was rattled by thousands of small earthquakes earlier this year, many people were left mystified ...

One hundred years ago, on June 23, 1925, a mountainside in the Gros Ventre Range in northwest Wyoming collapsed, unleashing ...

A study analyzes the enormous impact of earthquakes on the Mediterranean city, where the population has multiplied sixfold ...

The Mae Lao Fault caused Thailand’s most significant earthquake in over 150 years on May 5, 2014, with a magnitude of 6.3 (Mw 6.2 per USGS). The epicentre was in Dong Mada Subdistrict, Mae Lao ...

A small town in Idaho has experienced 12 earthquakes in the last 24 hours. The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the seismic activity near Stanley, a town that played a key role in the gold ...

As for the ping-pong ball “storage tank,” its density is less than that of the surrounding sediments. It’s held underground by the weight of the solid sediments above—until an earthquake takes place.

The USGS has documented 46 earthquakes of varying magnitudes in the region ... and liquefaction—a dangerous condition where soil behaves like liquid during seismic events—were unlikely ...

A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck West Texas on Saturday night, ... Ground failure and landslides were unlikely, as was liquefaction, when soil behaves like a fluid, it said. ... USGS data indicates.

Days after a devastating earthquake hit Myanmar in late March 2025, killing more than 3,700 people, footage of dark-colored liquid bubbling from the ground was misrepresented by social media users and ...

Scientists rubbished the claim, telling AFP that it actually shows soil liquefaction -- a phenomenon usually linked to earthquakes. "Myanmar's 8.2 earthquake tore the earth apart!

Meet Lucy Jones, “the Earthquake Lady” As part of her plan to prepare Americans for the next “big one,” the seismologist tackles the dangerous phenomenon of denial ...

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake was felt throughout New Jersey on April 5, 2024. The most recent earthquake in New Jersey was on March 21 and measured 1.8 magnitude. One year ago, on April 5, 2024, a ...