Stanford University researchers have pulled back a curtain on a hidden part of Earth that rarely makes headlines. Their new work maps a strange kind of earthquake that starts deep below the crust, ...

A mysterious underwater fault near Ecuador has been producing nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every five to six ...

Stanford researchers have created the first-ever global map of a rare earthquake type that occurs not in Earth's crust but in our planet's mantle, the layer sandwiched between the thin crust and Earth ...

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A series of strong quakes abroad and smaller ones at home has Californians increasingly asking the same question: Is the “Big One” looming? Two earthquakes of magnitude 7.0 or greater struck within ...

Scientists are warning that underexplored "supershear" earthquakes could have serious impacts in California, particularly near the infamous San Andreas Fault. "The San Andreas is the perfect setting ...

The magnitude of an earthquake depends on how far a rupture travels along a fault line before it stops. For the first time, we have now directly observed how a large earthquake comes to a halt. By ...

Earthquakes account for some of the costliest natural disasters in history. They can literally reshape the planet. But how powerful can they get? That's a question humans have only recently been able ...