The Phlegraean Fields volcanic complex, located beneath the metropolitan area of Naples—a city of 900,000 inhabitants in ...

Tremors beneath Northern California show hidden plate movement, helping scientists better understand where future big ...

A tsunami triggered by a 2025 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula carried a second, shorter wave signal that exposes rupture within 6 miles of the trench. That hidden tail, discovered in a new ...

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

Researchers have used artificial intelligence to develop a new tool for assessing earthquake damage, a leap that could ultimately help first responders in making critical rescue decisions, suggests a ...

Researchers have developed a laboratory earthquake model that connects the microscopic real contact area between fault surfaces to the possibility of earthquake occurrences. Published in the ...

On Jan. 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates. The ...

Earthquakes occur when the tectonic plates of the Earth's crust shift, jolting past each other in a release of built-up ...

USGS geologists Josie Nevitt and Beth Haddon make measurements of fault rupture. (Ben Brooks, USGS) The U.S. Geological Survey and the Global Earthquake Model Foundation signed an agreement that will ...