A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical seismic events. These earthquakes, recorded during hydraulic fracturing for oil ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Using single calcite crystals with varying surface roughness allows engineers to simplify the complex physics that describes fault movement. In a new study from the University of ...

According to a news release by the Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, a Canadian-German research team have documented a new type of earthquake in an injection field in British Columbia, Canada. Unlike ...

NZ-led research into large earthquakes shows they stop fast, with a sharp backwards movement. Scientists studied 12 major ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After the biggest earthquake to hit Southern California in 20 years struck in July, a powerful fault line that could cause a ...

Just a few times in a century, somewhere on the globe, a rare “tsunami earthquake” occurs. These are mysterious because, while they’re just medium-sized as earthquakes go, they cause ...

Cause of Earthquakes: Earthquakes happen due to the sudden movement of tectonic plates beneath the Earth’s crust. When stress builds up along plate boundaries or fault lines and the rocks can no ...

Aftershocks of the magnitude 7.1 earthquake near Ridgecrest have been creeping into areas close to two major earthquake faults, a development that is generating interest and some concern among ...

Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino (1909-10, p. 355) Prof. G. B. Rizzo has contributed an interesting paper on the velocity with which earth movements occasioned by the earthquake which ruined ...