SENDAI—Yoshihiro Murai defeated four challengers and overcame a campaign of misinformation and anti-foreigner sentiment to ...

TOKYO -- As Japan's logistics industry scrambles to prepare for a potential massive Nankai Trough earthquake, Nippon Express ...

Cascadia and San Andreas link raises spectre of simultaneous disasters, findings that could undermine insurance models and ...

A presentation at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the Seismic Society of America (SSA) has cast doubt on the traditional scientific narrative about one of the most infamous earthquakes in modern history.

We continue analyzing earthquake sequences in terms of their variability and scaling properties, including the behavior of the control parameter η of the unified scaling law for earthquakes (USLE), ...

Since Monday evening, a cluster of at least 10 earthquakes – ranging from magnitudes of 3.1 to 5.8 on the Richter scale – have struck off the coast of Oregon. Alarms were raised, as this zone is home ...

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Expedition 405 of the International Ocean Discovery Programme embarked on a mission to the Japan Trench, where scientists drilled into a fault zone involved in the 2011 Tohoku earthquake. The goal was ...

Two moderate earthquakes struck off Japan's northeastern coast today, the U.S. Geological Survey said — a magnitude 5.5 tremor about 39 miles east of Onagawa Chō and a magnitude 5.0 quake roughly 38 ...

Far beneath the waves, down in the depths of the Japan Trench—seven kilometers below sea level—lie hidden clues about some of the most powerful earthquakes and tsunamis on Earth. Subscribe to our ...

What could the next mega-earthquake on California's notorious San Andreas fault look like? Would it be a repeat of 1857, when an earthquake estimated at magnitude 7.7 to 7.9 ruptured the fault from ...

Towering walls of water traveling at the speed of a jetliner, with coastal communities from Japan and Hawaii to South America and the U.S. West Coast in their path. That was the frightening ...