A string of earthquakes has hit Washington in recent weeks. Are they connected, and do they tell us anything about the odds ...

A Japanese government panel also predicted that an earthquake with a magnitude of 8.8 could occur near the trench within 30 ...

Solar heat may influence earthquakes and their timings by altering rock brittleness and underground water movement.

Researchers have found a link between the sun's heat and Earth's seismic activity. Learn more about how this discovery could ...

A research team in Japan has warned that unreleased stress energy at an undersea trench off northern Japan has become large ...

Seismology has previously revealed that tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually ...

Tectonic plates move, causing strain energy to build up, and that energy eventually releases in the form of an earthquake. As ...

For decades, seismologists have worked to understand and predict earthquakes, but forecasting remains elusive. Now, ...

In the journal Chaos, researchers in Japan explore the likelihood that Earth’s climate, as affected by solar heat, plays a role in seismic activity. Using mathematical and computational methods, they ...

Strain slowly builds up until the fault’s frictional strength is exceeded and the rocks slip past each other in a “megathrust” earthquake. Washington Geologic Survey Another common ...