When the ground shakes violently, entire cities can crumble within minutes. Homes, hospitals, roads, and lives can vanish ...

One of the “worst-case scenarios” with an epicenter in southeast Missouri, near Sikeston, would be the least disastrous of ...

Experts launched a new interactive tool to help users predict what could happen in a devastating earthquake on the New Madrid ...

On a dynamic planet like Earth, it can be easy for drivers of change to go unnoticed – but scientists have now established and investigated an unexpected link between the Sun and our homeworld.

Researchers in Japan discovered that computer models incorporating Earth’s surface temperatures simulated past earthquakes more accurately. Their study, published Tuesday in the journal Chaos ...

In fact, the team noted, when they fed details of Earth surface temperature in to their seismic modeling, such became more accurate—particularly in the case of shallow earthquakes. "This makes ...

and the 1995 Milpa Alta and 1985 Juchitepec earthquakes. Their model earthquakes, up to magnitude 5.5, produced ground shaking that led to different amounts of damaged buildings, with the extent of ...

A new analysis of earthquake rupture directivity provides essential insights for seismic hazard and risk assessments in urban ...