Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

Instead, the most prolific period of glacial earthquakes at Thwaites, between 2018 and 2020, coincides with a period of accelerated flow of the glacier’s ice tongue towards the sea. The ice-tongue ...

Multiple notable earthquakes have struck the United States this year, including a powerful quake in California and a historic event on the East Coast earlier in 2024. Strong earthquakes can lead to ...

“The Cascadia Megathrust M9.0 Earthquake was selected as a scenario as it is currently one of the more likely earthquake ...

"Over that vast time, the rough edges and bends in the fault have been ground down," first author Eric Lindsey, a ...

When an ancient and smooth seismic fault releases all its energy at once, the consequences are spectacular. The magnitude 7.7 ...

Deep beneath the surface, our planet is a reactor, and one of the ways you'll feel this activity is when there's an earthquake. Earthquakes are violent shaking from the planet's surface, according to ...

Diego Melgar earned his PhD in geophysics from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego in 2014. He came to Scripps in search of cutting-edge earthquake science — and found not only ...

The film discusses the science of earthquakes, focusing on a significant earthquake recorded in Berkeley, California, that originated in Eastern Turkey. It explains how seismographs detect seismic ...

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 ...

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck northern Chile in July 2024—and it wasn’t supposed to be that strong. Unlike Chile ...