Map of significant earthquakes (greater than magnitude 4) in the UK Credit: British Geological Survey/UKRI News of a ...

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

A magnitude 4.7 earthquake struck off the southern coast of Mexico, centered about 50 miles south-southwest of La Esperanza.

A recent study published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters is the first to directly link earthquakes to climate ...

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it ...

Earthquakes are often treated as acts of nature that strike without warning along famous plate boundaries, yet a growing body of evidence shows that human activity can also trigger damaging shaking.

A common misconception about research is that it takes place in climate-controlled labs with microscopes, beakers, and Bunsen ...

Garrapata State Park sits quietly along Highway 1 between Carmel and Big Sur, offering a respite for souls weary of crowded beaches and overrun hiking trails. In a state where finding solitude often ...

A newly identified tectonic "regime" may rewrite our understanding of how rocky worlds evolve, scientists report in a new ...

An earthquake was felt in part of north-west England on Wednesday night. The 3.3-magnitude earthquake was recorded shortly ...

Fresh evidence suggests early Earth wasn’t locked under a rigid stagnant lid but was already experiencing intense subduction.

USGS deleted a false alert that wrongly reported a 5.9 Nevada quake, saying no earthquake occurred and the cause of the error ...