Haiti’s tragedy is almost certain to be surpassed sometime this century when a major quake hits Karachi, Pakistan, Katmandu, Nepal, Lima, Peru, or one of a long list of big poor cities facing ...

Quakes can come in clusters. An earthquake swarm is a sequence of seismic events occurring in a local area within a relatively short period of time. It comes as three earthquakes rocked another ...

ONC’s system has 35 seismic sensors on Vancouver Island and eight seafloor senors. It is one of the few in the world with land and sea earthquake detection.

Samoa—part of the Global Seismographic Network—to measure and identify the source of the American Samoa earthquake swarm. Without a local seismic monitoring network, they relied on a single seismic ...