Now, scientists are studying this cataclysmic seismic event with the goal of devising new ways to reduce casualties in the ...

The unique capabilities of a NASA earth-observing satellite have allowed researchers to view the effects of a major earthquake that occurred in 2001 in Northern India near the border of Pakistan. Lead ...

Recently, Earth’s rotation has been speeding up, shortening days by milliseconds. While this change is minor, scientists are ...

When we think of earthquakes, we imagine sudden, violent shaking. But deep beneath the Earth's surface, some faults move in near silence. These slow, shuffling slips and their accompanying hum -- ...

HONOLULU (AP) — One of this century’s most powerful earthquakes struck off the coast of Russia and generated tsunami warnings and advisories for a broad section of the Pacific, including Alaska, ...

created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth’s rotation. Dr. Benjamin Fong Chao, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. and Dr. Richard Gross of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

Only 3-5 of annual quakes are felt or noticed by residents, with 70% of them occurring in the Middleton Place-Summerville ...

EUGENE, Ore. (NBC) -- When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet could ...

Three years ago today, a massive earthquake destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. About 200,000 people were killed. More than a million were left homeless. Governments and aid ...

View of the downtown Miami skyline from Watson Island, on Wednesday July 31, 2024. Pedro Portal [email protected] When earthquakes shook Cuba on Sunday, a few people in Miami felt them. Social ...

An earthquake near Cleveland Sunday night was felt by some Pennsylvanians as well as western New York residents, according to multiple reports. The quake happened at 10:43 p.m. and was centered in ...