Do this week’s strong geomagnetic storm and earthquake in Japan mean that the Big One is nigh? That’s what some influencers on TikTok believe. On Tuesday, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit Japan, ...

Escalating activity along a fault line in the Sea of Marmara is moving closer to Istanbul, seismologists warn. By Robin George Andrews Something ominous is happening deep below the Sea of Marmara in ...

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck the eastern coast of Aomori, the northernmost prefecture of Japan’s main island, on Monday. As residents assess the damage, officials warn that another major quake ...

Two earthquakes of a 7.0 or greater magnitude have struck within days of each other in Alaska and Japan, prompting worries another big temblor could be on the way. The first quake hit in Alaska on Dec ...

Scientists investigating the unusual 2024 Calama earthquake uncovered a hidden process deep within the subducting slab that allowed the rupture to intensify far more than expected for its depth. Their ...

A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck southcentral Alaska on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at 8:11 a.m. Alaska Standard Time, occurring 26 miles southwest of Willow. The tremor registered at a depth of 42.8 miles, ...

The Carrizo Plain in eastern San Luis Obispo County contains the most strikingly graphic portion of the San Andreas Fault. Sediment cores recovered from the Pacific seafloor suggest that megathrust ...

Can an earthquake trigger a volcanic eruption? The answer, in certain cases, is probably, but only if the volcano is basically already primed to erupt. One such occurrence happened 318 years ago on ...

Cal State Fullerton students were quite shaken up recently — for a good reason. CSUF was among three locations chosen statewide to host the Great California ShakeOut, providing the opportunity for the ...

California’s Office of Emergency Services is shaking residents up. An earthquake simulator called the "Shake Trailer" is making a tour of the state this week to help people prepare for earthquakes in ...