A powerful 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif early on Monday (November 3), killing at least 20 people, injuring hundreds and damaging the city's historic ...

Discover how metamaterials (engineered structures that defy nature’s limits) are driving breakthroughs in earthquake safety, ...

For decades, the end-stage life of a subduction zone existed only in theory. Now, for the first time in geologic history, scientists are bearing witness to the Juan de Fuca Plate tearing apart and ...

Why does one ball beat another in a race down a ramp, even if they have the same mass and volume? Explore the concept of ...

Recent advances in earthquake engineering have increasingly focused on developing resilient and intelligent technologies to ...

For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

A specific type of earthquake that can cause particularly intense shaking is more common than previously believed, some ...

Two earthquakes struck Vranța, Romania, early Saturday, the National Institute for Earth Physics (INFP) said. According to ...

Hyderabad: Dr Prakash Kumar, director of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research–National Geophysical Research Institute (CSIR–NGRI), Hydera.

Deep under a mountain in Italy, researchers continue to push the boundaries of science with an experiment that could rewrite the Standard Model of ...

Machine learning is expanding scientists’ catalogs of quakes and refining maps of underground faults. It also promises to ...