A deep earthquake in Chile surprised scientists by using heat to grow stronger far underground and cause serious surface shaking.

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

This gradual accumulation and release of stress and strain is now referred to as the "elastic rebound theory" of earthquakes. Most earthquakes are the result of the sudden elastic rebound of ...

A period of slow, creeping movement without any shaking may be a necessary prelude to earthquakes, a new study suggests. The research, which was on the fundamentals of how materials rupture, focused ...