Seafloor sensors caught a rare slow quake in action. It hints at how Earth's stress is quietly released. For the first time, ...

The bold question-askers at What If examine the nearly impossible fault line conditions needed to trigger a magnitude 20 ...

Scientists have uncovered a rare slow-motion earthquake in Japan’s most tsunami-prone fault zone.

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While rare, Redding does get earthquakes strong enough for us to feel. Here's why Shasta and Siskiyou counties and the north ...

They captured the event using advanced borehole sensors installed deep beneath the ocean floor in a region known as the ...

Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...

El Pasoans might've felt some shaking from an earthquake. A 5.0 magnitude earthquake shook western Texas late Friday, Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake happened around ...

The earthquake happened around 10:23 p.m. MT, nearly 33 miles northwest of Toyah, Texas, about 190 miles from El Paso.

Scientists for the first time have detected a slow slip earthquake in motion during the act of releasing tectonic pressure on a major fault zone at ...