Natural disasters have a way of reminding us just how unpredictable and powerful nature can be. Some events in history sound like fictional tales from a dystopian novel, but should serve as a warning ...

For years, textbooks taught that shallow faults—cracks in the Earth’s upper crust—were too stable to cause earthquakes. Once ...

Towering structures must be able to bend and sway when subjected to the forces of wind and ground movement, or they will ...

Flooding during a Cascadia region earthquake would alter the topography and ecosystems of the coastal region for years to ...

Earthquakes in the American state of Utah, the Soultz-sous-Forêts region of France or in the Dutch province of Groningen should not be able to occur even if the subsurface has been exploited for ...

Global distribution of natural and induced seismicity. Natural earthquakes with moment magnitude higher than 5 are ...

There isn’t zero probability of earthquakes in the Rochester area, but it is much lower than in regions of the state with ...