Ultra-stable laser technology is being used to detect earthquakes in the Southwest Pacific thanks to an inventive method ...

At the turn of the century, California was attracting tourists and settlers by building eclectic Victorians found nowhere ...

Researchers have experimentally recreated another fundamental theoretical model from quantum physics, which goes back to the Nobel Prize laureate Werner Heisenberg. The basis for the successful ...

Solar-driven temperature shifts alter rock properties and underground water movement, potentially making the Earth’s crust ...

Typhoons, earthquakes and torrential downpours have caused large-scale damage throughout Japan, but now the city is using a ...

A year after a natural disaster, the resilient artisans of Japan’s Noto Peninsula are forging ahead—with great help from the ...

In the aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, which devastated vast areas of northeastern Japan, tsunami-affected ...

Seismologists describe potential damage forecasts from ground shaking scenarios for moderate earthquakes in three regions of the Mexico City basin.

This study, published in Earth and Planetary Physics, explores the subduction thermal state, slab metamorphism, and seismic ...

Imagine a heavy book resting on a table. If you try to gently push the book across the table with the tip of your finger, it ...

A recent swarm of small shallow earthquakes in Mexico City in 2019 and 2023 caused surprisingly strong ground shaking, ...