Sustained supershear earthquake ruptures produce distinct ground-motion characteristics compared with subshear earthquakes, ...

Two major earthquakes occurred in Venezeula on June 24, the first a magnitude 7.2 and the second a magnitude 7.5 a minute later. It is estimated that thousands of people have died and several thousand ...

There have been eight earthquakes in the last 30 days in Idaho with a magnitude 2.5 or higher.All of them have been in the Sawtooth or Salmon River mountains in Study: Tsunami from Cascadia mega-quake ...

Glacial earthquakes are a special type of earthquake generated in cold, icy regions. First discovered in the Northern Hemisphere more than 20 years ago, these quakes occur when huge chunks of ice fall ...

Powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela and Japan days apart, with Venezuela facing a deadly disaster due to fault complexity and poor infrastructure, while Japan's preparedness limited damage and ...