Evidence that a complete stress release may have contributed to the 2011 Tohoku earthquake that broke records. Both sedimentary formations above and below the plate boundary fault lie in the stress ...

After Sunday night's 3.6 magnitude earthquake in Lake County that was felt as far away as Akron, Lorain and Erie, Pennsylvania, many are asking about Akron's Magnetic Boundary. Here's what we found.

In a 'seismological wind tunnel,' engineers demonstrate the impact of rock gouge -- ground-up rock along a fault boundary -- on earthquake propogation. By simulating earthquakes in a lab, Caltech ...

Earthquakes are often treated as acts of nature that strike without warning along famous plate boundaries, yet a growing body of evidence shows that human activity can also trigger damaging shaking.

Earthquakes, large and small, happen every single day along zones that wrap around the world like seams on a baseball. Most don't bother anybody, so they don't make the news. But every now and then a ...

This study was mainly conducted by Dr. Peng SHU (State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration), Dr. Xiwei Xu (National Institute of Natural Hazard ...

Jaime Toro has received funding from NSF, USGS and DOE in the past. Earthquakes, large and small, happen every single day along zones that wrap around the world like seams on a baseball. Most don’t ...

After a destructive earthquake, scientists sifting through the rumbles that preceded the big event often find foreshocks. Foreshocks are smaller temblors that strike in the days and hours before a ...