When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. People stand by a collapsed building in Mandalay on March 28, 2025, after a deadly magnitude 7.7 ...

Magma seeping into a reservoir under the island of Santorini set off thousands of quakes, some of which almost reached a 5.0 ...

Just off the coast of the Pacific Northwest is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a complex collection of earthquake faults created by one tectonic plate pushing its way under another. Every 400-600 years, ...

A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.7 hit Mandalay, Myanmar 's second largest city, on Friday. It struck at midday and was followed by a strong 6.4 magnitude aftershock. It also shook neighbouring ...

Deep earthquakes remain one of the most puzzling phenomena in geophysics, and the phrase “mechanism that supercharges” them ...

On Jan. 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates. The ...

"What we looked at was kind of lesser though and lesser-known consequences of the next earthquake, which is the land subsidence, or the way the land is going to drop down," said Dr. Tina Dura, the ...

Since the magnitude 4.0 event, two smaller quakes—located deeper in Earth’s crust than the larger one—have already occurred: first a 2.7 magnitude tremor just to the northeast, then a 3.6 magnitude ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — An earthquake swarm near the island of Santorini is gradually declining a month after it began, Greek scientists monitoring the phenomenon said Monday. The undersea shocks — ...

A powerful magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit central Myanmar (formerly Burma) Friday (March 28), shaking Mandalay, the country's second-largest city, as well as nearby countries, including China and ...