Tsunami earthquakes are characterized by the generation of disproportionately large tsunamis relative to the observed ground ...

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Scientists detected a slow-motion earthquake off Japan, offering rare insight into hidden faults and tsunami risks beneath ...

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Two slow-motion earthquakes took several weeks to travel 20 miles along the fault. Each happened in places where geologic ...

A 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck near Lima, Peru on Sunday, shaking the region southwest of Callao. USGS reports ongoing ...

A “great earthquake,” with a magnitude higher than 8.0, has not happened along the Cascadia subduction zone since January 26, 1700, when a magnitude 9 quake struck the region.

EUGENE, Ore. (NBC) -- When an earthquake rips along the Cascadia Subduction Zone fault, much of the U.S. West Coast could shake violently for five minutes, and tsunami waves as tall as 100 feet ...

At the Seismological Society of America's Annual Meeting, researchers posed a seemingly simple question: how wide are faults? Using data compiled from single earthquakes across the world, Christie ...

It was given a ranking of 24. The fourth-most vulnerable county on the list, Shelby County in Tennessee, is located near the New Madrid Seismic Zone and is home to Memphis.

The earthquake in Southeast Asia was 7.7 magnitude at 6:20 a.m. GMT at a depth of 10km. Shallow earthquakes are more common and account for about 75% of the energy released from all quakes each year.