Tokyo, one of the world's most densely populated megacities, sits on a highly active seismic zone where the threat of major ...

The authors of the opinion article say California hazard maps and building codes should account for the possibility of ...

Scientists were able to use the data from a fiber optic cable and a sensitive measuring device to “image” the Mendocino ...

Most earthquake energy turns into heat rather than ground shaking, sometimes hot enough to melt rock in microseconds. MIT’s ...

Arroyo, now a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his colleagues created itty-bitty lab ...

Surprisingly, they found that only around 10% of a quake’s energy causes the physical shaking most people associate with ...

When natural disasters strike, they shatter lives, disrupt routines and loosen the emotional ties people have with the places ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula is one of the strongest quakes ever recorded, triggering tsunami warnings in Japan, Alaska, Hawaii and the ...

The Philippine and Japanese governments are set to revisit a 2004 study on the impact of the so-called “The Big One,” a ...

The Philippine government and the Japan International Cooperation Agency are currently in talks to revisit next year the 2004 ...