Shallow earthquakes like this one are more dangerous than deeper ones due to their greater energy release closer to the Earth ...

A 4.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Italian city of Naples overnight, causing damage to buildings and property and sparking ...

Giant regions of the mantle where seismic waves slow down may have formed from subducted ocean crust, a new study finds.

Heat from the sun affects earthquake activity on Earth, suggests new research. Incorporating solar activity predictions into ...

Computer models that factor in the Sun's impact on Earth's surface temperatures are providing more accurate simulations of ...

Three earthquakes jolted Tibet on Thursday according to National Center for Seismology. The latest one in the series was an ...

The U.S. National Tsunami Warning Center has said there is no tsunami danger for the East Coast of the United States after an ...

Solar heat may influence earthquakes and their timings by altering rock brittleness and underground water movement.

Earthquakes occur when the rock on one side of a fault slips relative to the other. The fault surface can be vertical, ...

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...

For decades, seismologists have worked to understand and predict earthquakes, but forecasting remains elusive. Now, ...

Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ... Feb. 28, 2025 — Scientists have revealed that two continent-size regions in Earth's deep mantle have distinctive ...