How Do They Work?For centuries, people wondered what caused the Earth to shake. In the 1960s, scientists finally settled on ...

Support from the National Science Foundation helps civil engineers like Ben Schafer improve building codes and develop more ...

A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from ...

The website Earthquake Track has this most recent quake tied for the ... “It’s injection of wastewater created by the process of fracking. It wasn’t fracking itself. It weakens the faults and actually ...

Japanese scientists have discovered new significant correlations between solar activity and earthquakes, according to recent ...

Earthquakes have been recorded in almost every ... The region has the most fault zones in the state and is also known for fracking, a process in which liquid is injected into the ground to force ...