Schools will be closed Monday on the iconic Greek island of Santorini after a series of 200 earthquakes shook the popular ...

New research uncovers a surprising clue in earthquake forecasting: tiny curved scratches on fault planes. These marks reveal ...

Seismic upheaval in the Awash Fentale area has uprooted thousands from their homes. It has also raised questions about the ...

Mount Vesuvius may be Europe's most famous volcano, but lurking nearby is an ancient supervolcano, a ticking timebomb that ...

A lurch in the Earth’s tectonic plates can wreak havoc at any time – as we’ve just seen in Vanuatu. How do scientists measure ...

Much of Kinglake was wiped out in February 2009 fire that was sparked by a SWER line fault at Kilmore East. In the most recent trial EFDs picked up 23 faults on 1100km of SWER lines, including ...

The U.S. Geological Survey reported a 2.8 magnitude earthquake at 5:28 p.m. Tuesday centered in the Wyndham area of Henrico County, right along the Chickahominy River and the Hanover County line.

"Very, very slight earthquakes. I usually associate with what, we geologists, refer to as a large growth faults and this area was a large basin, lots of sediment and that sediment moves every once ...

Meloni praised the historical ties between Italy and the Western Balkan countries, citing previous projects such as the 420 km power line connecting Italy with Montenegro and the Balkan region. She ...

Faults can slip suddenly as earthquakes, but also slowly and still energetically as slow-slip events. Slow-slip events are observed in subduction zones that host powerful megathrust earthquakes ...