Since 2002, dozens of slow-motion earthquakes have rippled beneath New Zealand. Researchers think a reservoir holding enough water to fill a sea may be the cause. "Instead of an earthquake ...

Along coastal California, the possibility of earthquakes and landslides are commonly prefaced by the phrase, “not if, but ...

The United States Geological Survey has confirmed an overnight earthquake in Georgia. According to the USGS, the 1.8 magnitude earthquake happened near Chickamauga, located in Walker County. It was ...

earthquake triggering, and slow slip events. The third edition of this classic treatise presents a wealth of new topics and new observations. These include slow earthquake phenomena; friction of ...

Conditions controlling major earthquakes in these zones, and their relationship with slow earthquakes, in which energy is released over hours and months, have long occupied geoscientists ...

Some earthquakes are imperceptibly quiet. We may not feel them, but machines might detect them—and they can point scientists ...

Earthquake researchers believed for decades that rock friction within fault lines follows a simple relationship with temperature. However, a new study published by the Proceedings of the National ...

or Urgent Earthquake Detection and Alarm System, used by Japan’s railways to slow down high speed trains in the event of an earthquake detection. This was the first system to use P-wave sensing ...

Riders on BART trains at 10:17 a.m. Thursday will have an earthquake drill headed their way. BART will participate in the ...