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Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...
EIA study for Great Nicobar Infrastructure Project downplays earthquake risk despite scientific concerns, highlighting potential dangers.
Meteorology Department says recent Nicobar quakes pose no risk to Thailand. Small quakes won't trigger tsunami. One-hour ...
Scientists have uncovered a rare slow-motion earthquake in Japan’s most tsunami-prone fault zone.
India is laying the groundwork for a smart tsunami and earthquake early warning system with a 275 km-long underwater cable in ...
The next major Pacific Northwest earthquake could cause coastal land to sink by up to 6.5 feet in a matter of minutes, a new study has warned. A magnitude 8.0 tremor on the Cascadia subduction zone ...
The 9.2 Sumatra earthquake and subsequent tsunami killed more than 227,000 when it struck the day after Christmas Day, while the 9.1 Tohoku earthquake in Japan killed more than 18,000 people.
Stumps of Sitka spruce, drowned from subsidence during an earthquake at a subduction zone some 1,600 years ago, in Neskowin, Ore. Marli Miller/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...
An earthquake in the Cascadia Subduction Zone with a magnitude greater than 8.0 could cause a sudden subsidence — the sinking of land — that, paired with rising sea levels, would enlarge ...
A long-feared monster earthquake off the coast of California, Oregon and Washington could cause some areas to sink by more than 6 feet, dramatically heightening the risk of flooding.
When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could barrel toward ...