Each year, National Earthquake Information Center locates approximately 20,000 earthquakes around the world. That is about 55 earthquakes per day. By some estimates, there may be even more. According ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Fault lines are fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates move past each other, often resulting in earthquakes. These geological features are classified into three ...
This type of powerful earthquake is more common than previously thought; Are we due for a ‘big one?’
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A devastating and violent type of earthquake ...
Earthquakes can be like Jell-O. A simple, yet often used analogy is that if you’re sitting in a valley or basin, it acts like a bowl of gelatin and it will shake more than surrounding rock. But not ...
An analysis of a string of three deadly earthquakes that struck Italy in 2016 suggests that they occurred in a sequence constrained by their geology. The conclusion, which has provoked some excitement ...
John Pickrell's description of the use of interferometric synthetic aperture radar to study earthquake zones was interesting (2 September, p 40). He notes that earthquakes are generated where tectonic ...
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