The outdoor location is crucial for tests like these: The UC San Diego shake table is the only place in the world where ...

Scientists in Switzerland are deliberately triggering tiny earthquakes deep in the Alps to study how quakes start. Using water injection and thousands of sensors, they aim to predict dangerous faults, ...

The inner planets Mercury and Venus will both be visible in the east-southeast sky before sunrise on Tuesday, Nov. 25.

After more than four centuries of lying dormant, the Krasheninnikova volcano erupted in August, sending clouds of ash to the ...

An earthquake swarm has broken out along California's Central Coast, setting off fears of an even bigger eruption in the near ...

This radical new method could preserve our entire knowledge base for thousands of years, in a storage medium the size of a ...

An earthquake struck California ’s Central Coast on Tuesday, sending shockwaves hundreds of miles across the region. The US ...

The last significant quake swarm in the San Ramon area, in 2015, lasted 36 days and produced 654 tiny earthquakes, the ...

Discover how Professor Sarah Haigh uses electron microscopy to advance material science, from 2D materials to catalysts, with ...

Scientists in Greece have laid out a mathematical framework to help explain a so-far-unsolved gap in our understanding of how ...

A new study has warned that the Himalayan region, known for several devastating earthquakes in the past, faces the ...

Discover how reading a quantum clock can surprisingly cost more energy than keeping it ticking, impacting timekeeping and ...