On Ellesmere Island in the Arctic, on one of the northernmost points of land in the world, sits a small permanent seismic ...

Discover interesting facts about how big earthquakes can get, why earthquakes happen, and why they're so hard to predict.

As more spacecraft are launched, the risk increases that uncontrolled space debris - those without active guidance - will ...

A record-breaking deep earthquake registered in May 2015 offshore of Japan likely was not a tectonic event but triggered by a ...

A magnitude 5.6 earthquake shook buildings in Taiwan on Thursday morning, as a series of temblors hit the island, causing ...

Last April, a magnitude 7.4 quake hit the island’s mountainous eastern coastal county of Hualien, killing at least 13 people, injuring more than 1,000 others, collapsing a hotel and forcing the ...

A building in central Port Vila being demolished following 17 December's 7.3 magnitude earthquake. The impact of 17 December ... As we move to recovery, our experience with disaster response in the ...

The ancient quake also left behind geologic clues, including ghost forests in the Pacific ... the ocean floor, and they are doing just that, but there are not many. And so, the scale of ...

Broken asphalt road by Chuetsu Earthquake, 2004 ... Perhaps all the more intriguing, this insight comes not from fault lines but from a laboratory experiment involving sheets of plastic.

The strongest earthquake in 25 years was followed by hundreds of aftershocks. Taiwan lies along the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean where most ...