In the recent Aegean Sea tremors, the lights appeared as striking beams over coastal areas, sparking viral posts and wild ...

Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

Improving tsunami hazard assessments depends on understanding what happens at the moment an earthquake ruptures beneath the ...

A massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar in March 2025, but what makes this event extraordinary is what happened next. For the first time, a nearby CCTV camera captured the fault rupture in ...

The 2025 mega-quake in Myanmar was a catastrophe for the communities it struck, but for scientists it was also a once-in-a-generation natural experiment that unfolded almost perfectly on camera, in ...

Portland State University scientists are developing a soil treatment, using microbes, to combat soil liquefaction.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stanford researchers mapped rare mantle earthquakes worldwide, revealing clusters near the Himalayas and the Bering Strait.

TOKYO -- Before the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, a series of signals hinted at what was coming -- ...

This new three-dimensional (3D) model of resistivity beneath the North Anatolian fault will help earth scientists more accurately identify areas at risk of major earthquakes. A new three-dimensional ...

At the Cascadia subduction zone in the Pacific Northwest, one tectonic plate is moving underneath another. New experimental work at UC Davis shows how rocks on faults deep in the Earth can cement ...