The Phlegraean Fields volcanic complex, located beneath the metropolitan area of Naples—a city of 900,000 inhabitants in Italy—has been rising increasingly since 2005, accompanied by a growing number ...

On Jan. 1, 2024, a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck the Noto Peninsula in Japan, resulting in extensive damage in the region caused by uplift, when the land rises due to shifting tectonic plates. The ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK — Although they mostly go unnoticed by humans, small earthquakes occur ...

Scientists have built a lab model that visually tracks how microscopic contact points between fault surfaces evolve during earthquake cycles, revealing the hidden mechanics behind both the slow ...

A new international study seen in Communications Earth & Environment and led by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Professor Martin Mai and scientist Bo Li has advanced ...

Scientists are using artificial intelligence to understand escalating unrest in Italy's Campi Flegrei, a volcanic area that is home to hundreds of thousands of people. Like adjusting a camera lens so ...

New geological models and updated hazard assessments from the U.S. Geological Survey and leading universities are once again ...

Just how big was last week’s earthquake that hit Russia and created a tsunami that dispersed energy throughout the entirety of the Pacific Ocean? At magnitude 8.8 on modern seismic instruments, it ...

Deep beneath the Pacific, one undersea fault has produced nearly identical magnitude 6 earthquakes every few years for ...

Scientists used supercomputer simulation to reveal the underlying mechanism by which the irregular fault geometry, characterized by multisegments, controlled the variation of the fault slip and ...