Climate journalist Emma Pattee has been worried about the so-called big one—an off-the-charts earthquake—hitting her town in Portland, Ore., for some time now. She’s not alone: scientists estimate at ...

The film discusses the science of earthquakes, focusing on a significant earthquake recorded in Berkeley, California, that originated in Eastern Turkey. It explains how seismographs detect seismic ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists can do is map the hidden layers beneath the surface that control how ...

Hoboken, N.J., December 8, 2025 — On Saturday December 6, 2025 Alaska was rocked by a 7.0 magnitude quake. Though not always so forceful, earthquakes happen every day. On average, about 55 of them ...

There's been a seismic shift in science, with scientists developing new AI tools and applying AI to just about any question that can be asked. Researchers are now putting actual seismic waves to work, ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Sometimes to truly study something up close, you have to take a step back. That’s what Andrea Donnellan does. An expert in earth sciences and seismology, she gets much of her ...

That was not your imagination. Two earthquakes in less than a week have rattled more than the ground across North Jersey. Whenever an earthquake strikes, many may wonder what caused the earthquake and ...

Slow earthquakes have been discovered to exhibit anomalously slow, long-lasting and small slips, adjacent to regular earthquakes where we sometimes feel catastrophic vibration. However, no one knows ...