Sicily on alert: a new study reveals that a simple seismic earthquake index can predict the rise of magma beneath Mount Etna.

Earthquakes are strong and sudden movements of the Earth's surface caused by shifts in the Earth's crust. They can change the ...

Be ready to drop, cover and hold on when UC Davis tests its WarnMe emergency communications system as a participant in the Great California ShakeOut Thursday, Oct. 17. At 10:17 a.m., millions of ...

Tara Hutchinson, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Structural Engineering, is the lead researcher on a series of tests on a 10-story, cold-formed steel-framed building at the UC San Diego ...

At 10:45 pm on Saturday, the University of Tehran's seismography centre announced that a 4.4-magnitude earthquake had shaken the city of Aradan in Iran's Semnan province, with tremors also felt in ...

MIAMI, Okla. - In a bizarre coincidence, researchers in Ottawa County began a series of earthquake tests on Wednesday, the same day the second-strongest earthquake on record in Oklahoma shook the ...

One day after Bay Area cellphones posted sudden alerts to an earthquake, California will push out another such alert Thursday morning – but only as a test. About 2.8 million users of the smartphone ...

Trump's claim of secret Pakistan nuclear tests renews focus on Balochistan. New science showed quakes can mask blasts, making detection accuracy drop to 37%.

A major earthquake in Iran was not triggered by a nuclear test as feared, according to new research. The study debunks claims that the 4.5 magnitude quake was a covert nuclear weapons test by the ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Testing began on Tuesday on the first early warning system to predict earthquakes before they rattle Oregon and Washington, with a group of businesses and hospitals trying out the ...