Chileans still have painful memories of a magnitude 8.8 earthquake in 2010 that triggered a tsunami and killed 526 people. Since that disaster, Chilean authorities have sought to improve emergency ...

Researchers explore the likelihood that Earth's climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they analyzed earthquake data ...

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...

For decades, seismologists have worked to understand and predict earthquakes, but forecasting remains elusive. Now, ...

Indian Ocean Tsunami. Image by David Rydevik (email: david.rydevikgmail.com), Stockholm, Sweden. - Originally at Bild:Davidsvågfoto.JPG., Public Domain, https ...

An area on the Earth where two tectonic plates meet and move towards one another, with one sliding underneath the other and moving down into the earth at rates typically measured in centimetres per ...

The driver of all this is plate tectonics: Earth’s surface is divided into several dozen plates, which move horizontally. Figuring out how this got started, however, has proved surprisingly ...

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments called plates—and that these plates can grow, shrink and move around ...

No tsunami warning was issued, as the tremors were not expected to generate significant waves, the agency added. Indonesia, an archipelagic nation, frequently experiences earthquakes due to its ...

"We're talking about a trillion-dollar tsunami that is about to hit this nation, which is unparalleled in our history," he said. The situation is especially visible in cities like Toronto and ...

A new ocean is being created in East Africa through changes in the tectonic plates -- huge segments of the Earth’s crust that move on top of the semi-fluid mantle underneath -- in the Afar ...

A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from Awash Fentale, an area in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The area falls ...