Deep under the Pacific Ocean, between 900 and 1,200 km deep, scientists have discovered something that doesn’t fit with what textbooks say about our planet.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is unusually quiet for a megathrust fault. Spanning more than 600 miles from Canada to ...

So long as it doesn't ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the United States won't be able to seek short-notice, on-site inspections to deter and detect possible Chinese and Russian ...

A magnitude 3.0 earthquake struck on Thursday about 3.1 miles west‑southwest of Irmo, South Carolina, according to the U.S.

On July 30, 2025, one of the six most powerful earthquakes ever recorded struck off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, shaking the Pacific basin. Tsunami alerts rippled across Japan, the United States, ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Yilan County experienced a magnitude 5.6 earthquake at 12:37 p.m. on Tuesday, according to the Central ...

The ShakeAlert-powered system starts working after a fault begins to rupture, then estimates where shaking is headed while the quake is still unfolding. Some people may get several seconds, others may ...

Movements and pressure occurring between three major tectonic plates in the subduction zone near Sabah have been identified ...

The jury remains out on whether the June 2020 event was a nuclear test or not. What is certain is that we are in a time of nuclear uncertainty and it will continue for some time,” ...

A powerful 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan’s seismically active Hindu Kush region, sending fresh waves of panic ...

U.S. officials reveal evidence of a covert 2020 nuclear test by China at Lop Nor, allegedly hidden using 'decoupling' to evade seismic detection.

Like the rest of the Northeast, Maine has no active faults, making it an area of relatively low seismic activity. But it ...